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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
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Joan Baez
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: January 9
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I have heard more than once, 'Shut up and sing!' and I get it now.
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In other words, it is what I do in the world that matters. When I traveled for three months in the Mideast, the places I wanted to go back to were Turkey and the Gaza Strip. It has to do with what Gandhi said: he found God in the eyes of the poor. Those are the places which were so moving that they were just unbearable.
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When I was 16, the guest speaker was King. And I was completely overwhelmed because I had been studying nonviolence, talking about it, reading about it, but here it was happening, here it was people boycotting the buses and people on the streets and taking risks, which I think was the key.
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Put tattoos all up and down our thighs, do anything our parents would despise. Take uppers, downers, blues, and reds and yellows, our brains are turning into jello.
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Noise is an imposition on sanity, and we live in very noisy times.
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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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As long as we keep searching, the answers come.
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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 foundation of my beliefs is the same as it was when I was 10. Non-violence.
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All of us are survivors, but how many of us transcend survival?
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If you swing both ways, you really swing. I just figure you double your pleasure.
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I was addicted to rhythm 'n' blues pretty much directly into folk music. I had my little 45s of mostly black artists. That was as close as I got. I've never listened to heavy rock or stuff that jangles my nerves, because I'm already jangled.
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If you don't have music, you have silence. There is power in both.
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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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Sometimes I get lonesome for a storm. A fullblown storm where everything changes.
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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 wasn't popular in school, I was Mexican, I was all these inappropriate things. I started playing the ukulele and taking it to school, and I realized people liked listening to it. I would play it to comfort myself at home, and I'd play rhythm and blues songs that had four chords. That's how it started.
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