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
attitude wisconsin crunchy
If you're looking for can-do, earthy-crunchy attitude then you've got to go to Wisconsin.
song writing way
Writing 'February' made me realize that breaking form is a way of letting the song be human.
war ifs happens
If a war has to happen, a war has to happen.
laughter children pregnancy
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
thinking magic doe
And where does magic come from? I think that magic's in the learning.
silly looks records
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.'
light giving cameras
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
blessed laughing lucky
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.
cans erosion heard people stories throw watch
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.
almost amongst encounter people sort
You'll almost encounter a superstition amongst musicians, people sort of go through strange rituals, what they need to do to write a song.
desire love question
What do you love more than loveWhen you question what your desire is forWhen you don't just figureThat you just want more.
fallen
But for every price, and every penence that I could think ofIt's better too have fallen in love, then never to have fallen at all
according artist audience build company demo letting opposed record says someplace tape
What you do is you build yourself as an artist according to what an audience says about you, as opposed to just submitting a demo tape to someplace and letting a record company take it from there.
looked looking stand
And we stand for the living, and we stand for the dead,And we looked out to see your enemies,And we see that you're looking all at us instead.