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The easiest kind of relationship for me is with ten thousand people. The hardest is with one.
Joan Baez
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Joan Baez
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: January 9
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The point on nonviolence is to build a floor, a strong new floor, beneath which we can no longer sink.
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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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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 heard more than once, 'Shut up and sing!' and I get it now.
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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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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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Mostly what I listen to when I turn on my little iPod is opera.
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As we know, forgiveness of oneself is the hardest of all the forgivenesses.
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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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Sometimes I get lonesome for a storm. A fullblown storm where everything changes.
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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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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 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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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'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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My life is a crystal teardrop. There are snowflakes falling in the teardrop and little figures trudging in slow motion.
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Noise is an imposition on sanity, and we live in very noisy times.
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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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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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All of us are survivors, but how many of us transcend survival?
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