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If it's natural to kill, how come men have to go into training to learn how?
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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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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If you don't have music, you have silence. There is power in both.
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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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I've never had a humble opinion. If you've got an opinion, why be humble about it?
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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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We're not really pacifists, we're nonviolent soldiers.
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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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