Joan Baez Quotes

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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.

  Joan Baez

  Inspirational, Positive, Death

  Joan Baez (1968). “DAYBREAK”

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• Action is the antidote to despair.

  Joan Baez

  Inspirational, Motivational, Happiness

  "The Joan Baez 75th Birthday Concert: Four Days Before The Iowa Voting, A Double Shot Of Espresso" by Jesse Kornbluth, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 28, 2016.

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• I went to jail for 11 days for disturbing the peace; I was trying to disturb the war.

  Joan Baez

  War, Jail, Trying

  Pop Chronicles interview, 1967.

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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.

  Joan Baez

  Thinking, People, Situation

  "Why the Sound Is Still Sweet: Q&A with Joan Baez". Interview with Marlene Kelly, www.oprah.com. November 4, 2009.

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• I would say that I'm a nonviolent soldier. In place of weapons of violence, you have to use your mind, your heart, your sense of humor, every faculty available to you...because no one has the right to take the life of another human being.

  Joan Baez

  Heart, Soldier, Mind

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• To sing is to love and affirm,
  to fly and to soar,
  to coast into the hearts of the people
  who listen
  to tell them that life is to live,
  that love is there,
  that nothing is a promise,
  but that beauty exists,
  and must be hunted for and found.

  Joan Baez

  Heart, Love Is, People

  Joan Baez (1968). “DAYBREAK”

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• If you don't have music, you have silence. There is power in both.

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  Silence, Ifs

  "Joan Baez on the new protest era: The whole world's watching". Interview with Greg Kot, articles.chicagotribune.com. October 26, 2011.

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• As long as one keeps searching, the answers will come.

  Joan Baez

  Kindness, Thoughtful, Long

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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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  Witty, Humble, Humility

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• To sing is to praise God and the daffodils, and to praise God is to thank Him, in every note within my small range, and every color in the tones of my voice, with every look into the eyes of my audience, to thank Him. Thank you, God, for letting me be born, for giving me eyes to see the daffodils lean in the wind, all my brothers, all my sisters, for giving me ears to hear crying, legs to come running, hands to smooth damp hair, a voice to laugh with and to sing with...to sing to you and the daffodils.

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  Running, Brother, Eye

  Joan Baez (1968). “DAYBREAK”

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• I have hope in people, in individuals. Because you don't know what's going to rise from the ruins.

  Joan Baez

  People, Ruins, Individual

  "Q: Didn't hanging out with Dylan and the Beatles feel like intruding on a boys' club? A: Yeah. So I'd make tea. And dry Dylan's sweaty vests". Interview with Emma Brockes, www.theguardian.com. January 24, 2006.

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• The easiest kind of relationship for me is with ten thousand people. The hardest is with one.

  Joan Baez

  Friendship, Relationship, Peace

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• The search is in the doing.

  Joan Baez

  Deeds

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• If you're gonna sing meaningful songs, you have to be committed to living a life that backs that up.

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  Music, Meaningful, Song

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• Noise is an imposition on sanity, and we live in very noisy times.

  Joan Baez

  Noise, Sanity, Imposition

  Joan Baez (1968). “DAYBREAK”

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• Someone had to change the world. And obviously I was the one for the job.

  Joan Baez

  Jobs, World, Changing The World

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• The point on nonviolence is to build a floor, a strong new floor, beneath which we can no longer sink.

  Joan Baez

  Strong, Nonviolence

  Joan Baez (1968). “DAYBREAK”

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• Only you and I can help the sun rise each coming morning. If we don't, it may drench itself out in sorrow.

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  Morning, Sorrow, May

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• Sometimes I think that it is enough to say that if we don't sit down and shut up once in a while we'll lose our minds even earlier than we had expected. Noise is an imposition on sanity, and we live in very noisy times.

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  Depression, Thinking, Mind

  Joan Baez (1968). “DAYBREAK”

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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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  Intelligent, Practice, Quality

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• Living so fully, I can't imagine what any drug could do for me.

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  Drug, Imagine, I Can

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• If it's natural to kill, how come men have to go into training to learn how?

  Joan Baez

  Death, Peace, Military

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• As we know, forgiveness of oneself is the hardest of all the forgivenesses.

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  Hardest, Oneself, Knows

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• There's a consensus out that it's OK to kill when your government decides who to kill. If you kill inside the country you get in trouble. If you kill outside the country, right time, right season, latest enemy, you get a medal.

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  Country, War, Government

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• We're not really pacifists, we're nonviolent soldiers.

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  Soldier, Pacifist

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