Quotes By Dar Williams

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

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

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

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

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

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

Everyone has to decide how they're going to appear in their lives, how they're going to put themselves out there to the world.

The first concert I saw was Cheryl Wheeler.

You always have to wrestle with chaos.

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

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

The very best thing for music would be to live next door to a person who listens to loud music so you could mishear music everyday and mutate it to your own means.

But if you're looking to be spooked by really tall trees then you've got to go to Washington State.

Therapy was the biggest romance of my life.

Sometimes life gives us lessons sent in ridiculous packaging.

I have a sordid past.

I think music is another language.

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

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

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

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

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.

In the laughing times we know that we are lucky, and in the quiet times we know that we are blessed. And we will not be alone.

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

And where does magic come from? I think that magic's in the learning.

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

I really value people besides parents who nurture kids.

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

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