100 Quotes by Dar Williams

Well, my friends give me purple flowers and orange teaand goosedown spinning quilts and torquoise chairswe greet one another in a wild profusion of wordsand wave farewell amidst the wonderment of airIn the laughing times we know we are luckyIn the quiet times we know that we are blessedAnd we will not be alone

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 fields

And I'll act like I have faith, and like that faith never ends, but I really just have friends.

So I'll keep you wondering what time I'm arriving And you'll drive me crazy with your backseat driving And I'll talk in my sleep and you'll steal all the covers We'll argue it out and we'll call ourselves lovers And I'll stay in my body and you'll stay in your own 'Cause we know that we're born and we're dying alone. So we turn out the light while the sirens are screaming And we kiss for the waking, and then join the dreaming.

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

I'm becoming a professional nomad and enjoying that whole part of my life.

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

But if you're looking to be spooked by really tall trees then you've got to go to Washington State.

Sometimes life gives us lessons sent in ridiculous packaging.