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

- Dar Williams

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.

- Dar Williams

You always have to wrestle with chaos.

- Dar Williams

The very best thing you can do is to try to write a song that has some sort of impact.

- Dar Williams

The first concert I saw was Cheryl Wheeler.

- Dar Williams

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.

- Dar Williams

If a war has to happen, a war has to happen.

- Dar Williams

I try to be careful not to do single concerts where I fly out, do my show, turn around and go home.

- Dar Williams

I think music is another language.

- Dar Williams

I really value people besides parents who nurture kids.

- Dar Williams

I have a sordid past.

- Dar Williams

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.

- Dar Williams

But I benefit from the taxes I pay because I know how to access the benefits of the taxes.

- Dar Williams

Being told that you are good at banter is like being told that you are a good person.

- Dar Williams

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

- Dar Williams

Writing 'February' made me realize that breaking form is a way of letting the song be human.

- Dar Williams

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.

- Dar Williams

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

- Dar Williams

I was raised by parents who really admired the religious leaders of the left, as many 60s and 70s liberals did.

- Dar Williams

But social justice and the environment are very tied together in my head.

- Dar Williams