Dar Williams Quotes

"Is it how she moves, or how she looks?" I say it's loneliness suspended to our own like grappling hooks, And as long as she's got noise, she's fine. But I could teach her how I learned to dance when the music's ended.

Sometimes life gives us lessons sent in ridiculous packaging.

There's a marketing scheme that tells you that pregnancy and child rearing will make you into a moron, that your kids are only happy when you're buying them stuff. It's hard being a parent, but I laugh a lot and smile a lot and really enjoy it. The ratio of laughter to sadness is higher. There's part of me that wants to broadcast that. Parenting only affirmed what I already cared about, and that's good

I'm becoming a professional nomad and enjoying that whole part of my life.

And I will write this down / And then I will not be alone again

The first concert I saw was Cheryl Wheeler.

Every time you opt in to kindness Make one connection, used to divide us It echoes all over the world

Guiding the ship takes more the your skill. It is the compass inside as the strength of your will.

The funny thing is musicians often love to go to see visual art because you've got all these pictures to turn into metaphors.

And the ones that can know you so well are the ones that can swallow you whole.
I have a good and I have an evil, I thought the ocean, the ocean thought nothing,
You are the welcoming back from the ocean.

Milwaukee one of my favorite cites; I think Milwaukee is #1.

If a war has to happen, a war has to happen.

All the things you treasure most will be the hardest won
I will watch you struggle long before the answers come
But I won't make it harder, I'll be there to cheer you on
I'll shine the light that guides you down the road you're walking on

Sometimes life sends us lessons in ridiculous packaging.

The summer ends and we wonder who we are And there you go, my friends, with your boxes in your car And today I passed the high school, the river, the maple tree I passed the farms that made it Through the last days of the century And I knew that I was going to learn again Again, in this less hazy light I saw the fields beyond the fields The fields beyond the field

You always have to wrestle with chaos.

Sixties folk rock was my original muse and the folk audience-people who listen to music off the beaten track-fostered my career. I definitely don't want to abandon the genre but I also need to make sure I'm Dar Williams first.

If you're lucky you find something that reflects you, Helps you feel your life, protects you, Cradles you and connects you to everything.

Now when I was fifteen, oh I knew it was over
The road to enchantment was not mine to take
Cause lower calf, upper arm should be half what they are
I was breaking the laws that the signmakers made.

And all I could eat was the poisonous apple
And that's not a story I was meant to survive
I was all out of choices, but the woman of voices

She turned round the corner with music around her,
She gave me the language that keeps me alive

And the ones that know you so well are the ones that can swallow you whole.

But I benefit from the taxes I pay because I know how to access the benefits of the taxes.

Arizona is really cool but I couldn't stay there for too long.

Being told that you are good at banter is like being told that you are a good person.

Writing 'February' made me realize that breaking form is a way of letting the song be human.

I really value people besides parents who nurture kids.

The light that stopped the night felt like forgiveness.

And you bring your words,
But you're just like them,
You're unprepared
'Cause you don't know the terrain

And I'll act like I have faith, and like that faith never ends, but I really just have friends.

There's the wind And the rain And the mercy of the fallen Who say, "Hey, it's not my place To know what's right" There's the weak And the strong And the many stars that guide us We have some of them inside us

I watch people throw aluminum cans in the trash, and I think of all the stories I've heard about the over-mining of aluminum, the erosion that happens, and the trees that fall down.

But where do we come up with this notion of a woman in which the less space you take up, the more you're worth?

I try to be careful not to do single concerts where I fly out, do my show, turn around and go home.

There's always people who came 600 miles to hear the song you didn't play.

Sometimes I see myself fine, sometimes I need a witness. And I like the whole truth, but there are nights I only need forgiveness.

Therapy was the biggest romance of my life.

If you're looking for can-do, earthy-crunchy attitude then you've got to go to Wisconsin.

A song versus an album is not like a scene versus a play.