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Dar Williams Biography

Dar Williams (Dorothy Snowden Williams, born April 19, 1967) is an American singer-songwriter specializing in pop folk. Hendrik Hertzberg of The New Yorker has described Williams as "one of America’s very best singer-songwriters."

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God looks like a guidance counselor, God's got that smile. God says, 'How could this be? That's really odd I guess I'll have to check my records, silly me, you know, I'm only God. '

Counselor, Looks, Odd, Records, Silly, Smile

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

Amongst, People, Song, Superstition, Writing

And if I had a camera Showing all the light we give And showing where the light extends I'd give it to my friends

Camera, Cameras, Extends, Give, Giving, Light

It's just that you don't have to bring it to every stage. You can do a fundraiser for people that you support. You don't necessarily have to talk about one thing or another when you're on your own.

People, Stage, Support You, Thing

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

Banter, Good Person, Like, Person, Persons

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

Attitude, Crunchy, Looking, Wisconsin

[Mortal City ] was also the beginning of the reality of the fact that I was going to have little pieces of my personality identifying with all of these different parts of the country.

Country, Reality, Cities, Fact, Pieces

I've watched towns and cities evolve and become very resilient, and fun, and unique, and prosperous on their own terms. And the secret is bridging. It's when the local church has a fun clothing swap fundraiser with a temple, and then the next year they bring in the mosque.

Clothing, Fun, Local, Unique, Years

The best, most solid place to stand as you look at our present situation is on a foundation of history. The Roman Empire, the British Empire, and the Nazi empire all have things in common.

British, Empires, Foundation, History, Looks, Nazi

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

Art, Funny Things, Musician, Musicians, Visual

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

Arizona, Cool, Long, Really Cool, Stay

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.

Abandon, Careers, Genre, Make, People, Rocks

Every once in a while I'll say something. . . I dropped the F-bomb early on in my career. There was this lesbian couple and they looked super-hip. One of them looked at me and shook her head, like "Don't do that. " I think she was doing it to say, "It doesn't work. " She didn't say anything but it was this cautionary moment. I knew it didn't work. There are just so many other words to choose from.

Careers, Cautionary, Choose, Couple, Head, Thinking

"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.

Dance, Grappling, Like, Loneliness, Long, Moving

Hegemony is not defined by rivers or conventional borders - it's dominance, it's influence. So we get to decide in our hearts, are we in Iraq to help restore something, or are we there to establish dominance? How can you torture people and say, well, that's just a few bad apples in our culture?

Apples, Conventional, Heart, Iraq, Restore, Rivers

Therapy was the biggest romance of my life.

Biggest, Life, Romance, Therapy

I think music is another language.

Language, Music, Music Is, Think, Thinking

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

Bring, Causes, Knows, Like, Terrain, Unprepared

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

Act, Ends, Friends, Have Faith, Like

. . . 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.

Humbling, Live, Part, Soup, Trying

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