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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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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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As long as we keep searching, the answers come.
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Diamonds & Rust started off as another song. Then the words started to morph. When you write a song that deep, the words come from some place else. But when the songs stop coming, it would be so contrived to try and force it. Since then I've just been doing other people's music.
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My life is a crystal teardrop. There are snowflakes falling in the teardrop and little figures trudging in slow motion.
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We both know what memories can bring / They bring diamonds and rust.
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Sometimes I get lonesome for a storm. A fullblown storm where everything changes.
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I have been true to the principles of nonviolence, developing a stronger and stronger aversion to the ideologies of both the far right and the far left and a deeper sense of rage and sorrow over the suffering they continue to produce all over the world.
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I have heard more than once, 'Shut up and sing!' and I get it now.
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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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All of us are survivors, but how many of us transcend survival?
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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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Noise is an imposition on sanity, and we live in very noisy times.
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I've been obsessed with stopping people from blowing each other's brains out since I was ten.
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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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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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Action is the antidote to despair.
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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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The only thing that's been a worse flop than the organization of nonviolence has been the organization of violence.
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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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I have hope in people, in individuals. Because you don't know what's going to rise from the ruins.
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