Dar Williams famous quotes

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.
-- Dar Williams

#Blessed #Laughing #Lucky

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
-- Dar Williams

#Laughter #Children #Pregnancy

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

#Thinking #Magic #Doe

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

#Song #Writing #Way

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

#Attitude #Wisconsin #Crunchy

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

#Forgiveness #Night #Needs

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
-- Dar Williams

#Cheer #Struggle #Light

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
-- Dar Williams

#Light #Giving #Cameras

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

#Causes #Unprepared

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
-- Dar Williams

#Strong #Stars #Rain

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

#Religious #Leader #Parent

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

#Falling In Love #Love You #Height

The light that stopped the night felt like forgiveness.
-- Dar Williams

#Revenge #Night #Light

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

#Justice #Together #Environment

They preach that I should save the world. They pray that I won't do a better job of it.
-- Dar Williams

#Jobs #World #Praying

Go ahead, push your luck, find out how much love the world can hold.
-- Dar Williams

#Luck #World

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

#Life #Lucky #Helping

"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.
-- Dar Williams

#Dance #Loneliness #Moving

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
-- Dar Williams

#Summer #Goodbye #School

Therapy was the biggest romance of my life.
-- Dar Williams

#Romance #Therapy

The only word for love is everybody's name.
-- Dar Williams

#Love Is #Names

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?
-- Dar Williams

#Space #Come Up #Notion

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

#Have Faith #Ends

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

#Time #Kindness #Echoes

Sometimes life gives us lessons sent in ridiculous packaging.
-- Dar Williams

#Life Lesson #Giving #Lessons

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

#Home #Trying #Concerts

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

#Becoming #Enjoy #Nomad

If a war has to happen, a war has to happen.
-- Dar Williams

#War

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

#Thinking #Citing #My Favorite

The first concert I saw was Cheryl Wheeler.
-- Dar Williams

#Saws #Firsts #Concerts

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

#Art #Funny Things #Musician

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

#Song #Writing #Impact

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.
-- Dar Williams

#Rocks #Careers #People

I think music is another language.
-- Dar Williams

#Thinking #Language #Music Is

I really value people besides parents who nurture kids.
-- Dar Williams

#Kids #People #Parent

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

#Song #Play #Albums

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

#Long #Arizona #Really Cool

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

#Good Person #Banter #Persons

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

#Benefits #Pay #Taxes

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

#Tree #Washington State #States

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.
-- Dar Williams

#World

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

#Dance #Fall #Light

I have a sordid past.
-- Dar Williams

#Past

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

#Song #Writing #People