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
song play albums
A song versus an album is not like a scene versus a play.
song play people
There's always people who came 600 miles to hear the song you didn't play.
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.
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 way
Writing 'February' made me realize that breaking form is a way of letting the song be human.
awaken crossroads good love meet song sort travel
Even a good love song can sort of awaken people. The way we travel and meet one another at the crossroads is important.
aspire songs unite writes
That's what I aspire to, ... Pete Seeger is the one who writes the songs that unite people.
realized songs
I realized I was writing a lot of songs about interconnectedness,
common less metaphor record songs stuff theme thinking
I'm thinking about where we are right now in history. The other common theme to this record is that the songs all put stuff I find important out on the table. Less metaphor and more me.
forget glad peter took
I won't forget when Peter Pancame to my house, took my handI said I was a boy, I'm glad he didn't check.
love-is names
The only word for love is everybody's name.
past
I have a sordid past.
dance fall light
How I long to fall just a little bit, to dance out of the lines and stray from the light.
world
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.