I think the music was speaking to that opening up of whose voice gets heard and how multidimensional that voice can be.

Dar Williams

Categorized in : Thinking Voice Opening Up

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

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I'm amazed at the adolescent nature of some of the religious fanatics in our government. And they're full of double standards.

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Now that I believe in God, I have an extra layer of saying I'll write about what I write about and assume that I'm being offered the opportunity to illuminate something important. But when you think you are too important, you become some sort of fascist.

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We have evolved to understand that language of power that's taken too much.

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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.

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You always have to wrestle with chaos.

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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.

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