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I've never had a humble opinion. If you've got an opinion, why be humble about it?
Joan Baez
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Joan Baez
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: January 9
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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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The foundation of my beliefs is the same as it was when I was 10. Non-violence.
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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've been obsessed with stopping people from blowing each other's brains out since I was ten.
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I think the question that nobody wanted to deal with is the question they're posing: did my kid die in vain? Because the answer is too awful.
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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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Nonviolence is a flop. The only bigger flop is violence.
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Sometimes I get lonesome for a storm. A fullblown storm where everything changes.
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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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Nasty Man isn't a laughing matter, but you have to laugh anyway. The song, itself, becomes something of a laughing matter because we'd go crazy if we didn't keep laughing.
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I went to jail for 11 days for disturbing the peace I was trying to disturb the war.
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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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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.
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Social change really cannot happen unless people are willing to take a risk, and they were. And I was so moved by that, and of course by the way that he spoke, that made a huge dent in my belief system and my spirit.
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We both know what memories can bring / They bring diamonds and rust.
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I was writing Diamonds and Rust' and it had nothing to do with what it turned out to be. I don't remember what it is, but I think I was writing a song. It was literally interrupted by a phone call, and it just took another curve and it came out to be what it was.
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Mostly what I listen to when I turn on my little iPod is opera.
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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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Action is the antidote to despair.
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We're not really pacifists, we're nonviolent soldiers.
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