Joan Baez Quotes
Quotations and aphorisms by Joan Baez:
I've never been an optimist.
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The only thing that's been a worse flop than the organization of non-violence has been the organization of violence.
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Someone had to change the world. And obviously I was the one for the job.
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The easiest kind of relationship for me is with ten thousand people. The hardest is with one.
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The longer you practice nonviolence and the meditative qualities of it that you will need, the more likely you are to do something intelligent in any situation.
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The hardest song to write is a protest song, a topical song with meaning.
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Nonviolence is a flop. The only bigger flop is violence.
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I've never had a humble opinion. If you've got an opinion, why be humble about it?
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I'm lucky to have met so many people who have been involved in peace and who have been peace prize winners.
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The foundation of my beliefs is the same as it was when I was 10. Non-violence.
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My father was a physicist and also an activist. My first public protest was with my dad at Stanford. I came by all that honestly.
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If people have to put labels on me, I'd prefer the first label to be human being, the second label to be pacifist, and the third to be folk singer.
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Instead of getting hard ourselves and trying to compete, women should try and give their best qualities to men - bring them softness, teach them how to cry.
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My dread is for my show to be a nostalgia act. So the key to it is how do we keep it fresh?
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Action is the antidote to despair.
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As we know, forgiveness of oneself is the hardest of all the forgivenesses.
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You don't get to choose how you're going to die, or when. You can only decide how you're going to live. Now.
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It seems to me that those songs that have been any good, I have nothing much to do with the writing of them. The words have just crawled down my sleeve and come out on the page.
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You may not know it, but at the far end of despair, there is a white clearing where one is almost happy.
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That's all nonviolence is - organized love.
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We were raised with that discussion about violence and non-violence, and we all pretty much came up on the side of non-violence. That became my foundation with politics and my livelihood.
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I have hope in people, in individuals. Because you don't know what's going to rise from the ruins.
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During the 'ballad' years for me, the politics was latent; I was just falling in love with the ballads and my boyfriend. And there was the beauty of the songs.
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I didn't go through the routine of singing in small clubs and doing open mics and working so hard the way a lot of people do and did. It was just an overnight kind of thing.
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If it's natural to kill, how come men have to go into training to learn how?
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I think music has the power to transform people, and in doing so, it has the power to transform situations - some large and some small.
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Hypothetical questions get hypothetical answers.
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I spend a lot of time with Buddhists. I'm not a Buddhist, but their relationship with death interests me.
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People say I'm such a pessimist, but I always was. It never stopped me from doing what I had to do. I would say I'm a realist.
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I see a young man playing 'Plaisir d'Amour' on guitar. I knew I didn't want to go to college; I was already playing a ukulele, and after I saw that, I was hooked. All I wanted to do was play guitar and sing.
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Mostly what I listen to when I turn on my little iPod is opera.
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