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Action is the antidote to despair.
Joan Baez
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Joan Baez
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: January 9
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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 have heard more than once, 'Shut up and sing!' and I get it now.
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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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I've been obsessed with stopping people from blowing each other's brains out since I was ten.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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All of us are survivors, but how many of us transcend survival?
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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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I am so disconnected from the world of rock 'n' roll. I was always peripheral, partly because of the drug culture. I was not involved in that.
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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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The foundation of my beliefs is the same as it was when I was 10. Non-violence.
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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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Nonviolence is a flop. The only bigger flop is violence.
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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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The easiest kind of relationship for me is with ten thousand people. The hardest is with one.
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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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