Quotes from Dar Williams

It's a collective truth that slavery is wrong, that child labor is wrong, that gross inequality is wrong. God didn't send it.

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

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.

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

The only word for love is everybody's name.

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

You know how people say they're either like a cat or a dog? I feel like a cat. I just want to be alone. Isn't that weird? It's a lot to take in.

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

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.

The very best thing for music would be to live next door to a person who listens to loud music so you could mishear music everyday and mutate it to your own means.

I really value people besides parents who nurture kids.

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

There's tons of anger and angst and peculiarity and eccentricity, and good towns know that that's okay. But towns that are kind of bullshit don't know what to do with all those feelings.

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

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

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

Sometimes life gives us lessons sent in ridiculous packaging.

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

The light that stopped the night felt like forgiveness.

But for every price, and every penence that I could think of It's better too have fallen in love, then never to have fallen at all

She who loves last loves best.