Dar Williams
Dar Williams
Dar Williams 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."...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionFolk Singer
Date of Birth19 April 1967
CityMount Kisco, NY
CountryUnited States of America
justice together environment
But social justice and the environment are very tied together in my head.
song play albums
A song versus an album is not like a scene versus a play.
skills ships compass
Guiding the ship takes more the your skill. It is the compass inside as the strength of your will.
good-person banter persons
Being told that you are good at banter is like being told that you are a good person.
benefits pay taxes
But I benefit from the taxes I pay because I know how to access the benefits of the taxes.
tree washington-state states
But if you're looking to be spooked by really tall trees then you've got to go to Washington State.
dance fall light
How I long to fall just a little bit, to dance out of the lines and stray from the light.
trying soup humbling
...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.
song writing impact
The very best thing you can do is to try to write a song that has some sort of impact.
song writing people
Youll almost encounter a superstition amongst musicians, people sort of go through strange rituals, what they need to do to write a song.
rocks careers people
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.
life lucky helping
If you're lucky you find something that reflects you, Helps you feel your life, protects you, Cradles you and connects you to everything.
dance loneliness moving
"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.
summer goodbye school
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