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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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There's very little I can sing now. When I asked my first voice teacher, who was the best one, When will I know when to stop singing? he said, Your voice will tell you. And it is very, very difficult to sing 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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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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I don't think of myself as a symbol of the sixties, but I do think of myself as a symbol of following through on your beliefs.
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As long as we keep searching, the answers come.
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I'd hear a tune in my head and the words would come. And then, very suddenly it just stopped. It seemed too stilted to try and learn how to write a song, to go to round robins and to learn things from other people on how to write a song. So I just stopped and did other things.
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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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The only thing that's been a worse flop than the organization of nonviolence has been the organization of violence.
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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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If you swing both ways, you really swing. I just figure you double your pleasure.
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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 study anything really. I didn't learn out of the books because I couldn't read music very well, so it is what they say it is - you learn from other people. And my cohorts and I would sneak around the coffee shops and hear stuff we wanted to learn, and then you ask whoever was playing it to teach you.
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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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If you're gonna sing meaningful songs, you have to be committed to living a life that backs that up.
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Action is the antidote to despair.
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All of us are survivors, but how many of us transcend survival?
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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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The foundation of my beliefs is the same as it was when I was 10. Non-violence.
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