Dar Williams Quotes

The first concert I saw was Cheryl Wheeler.

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

I think music is another language.

The very best thing you can do is to try to write a song that has some sort of impact.

Why wouldn't you want to be the envy of your neighbors by being so good and so generous and so smart in how you use the power that you obviously have? That's my patriotism.

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

...we're all in a soup of trying to live by words, and trying to live by poetry. It's both humbling, and really flattering to know that my words are part of all that.

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

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

Youll almost encounter a superstition amongst musicians, people sort of go through strange rituals, what they need to do to write a song.

I really value people besides parents who nurture kids.

I have a sordid past.

How I long to fall just a little bit, to dance out of the lines and stray from the light.

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?

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

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

I was raised by parents who really admired the religious leaders of the left, as many 60s and 70s liberals did.

I fear that to fall in love with you is to fall from a great and gruesome height.

But social justice and the environment are very tied together in my head.