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
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.
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.
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.
best everyday listens loud music next
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.
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.
enemies looked looking
And we looked out to see your enemies and we see that you're looking at us instead.
fools silence surprised
Are we the fools for being surprised that a silence could end with no sound?
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.