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
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 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.
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.
song writing impact
The very best thing you can do is to try to write a song that has some sort of impact.
art funny-things musician
The funny thing is musicians often love to go to see visual art because you've got all these pictures to turn into metaphors.
becoming enjoy nomad
I'm becoming a professional nomad and enjoying that whole part of my life.
thinking citing my-favorite
Milwaukee one of my favorite cites; I think Milwaukee is #1.
firsts saws concerts
The first concert I saw was Cheryl Wheeler.
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
romance therapy
Therapy was the biggest romance of my life.
have-faith ends
And I'll act like I have faith, and like that faith never ends, but I really just have friends.