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Mostly what I listen to when I turn on my little iPod is opera.
Joan Baez
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Joan Baez
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: January 9
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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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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 don't have music, you have silence. There is power in both.
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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've been obsessed with stopping people from blowing each other's brains out since I was ten.
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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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All of us are survivors, but how many of us transcend survival?
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As we know, forgiveness of oneself is the hardest of all the forgivenesses.
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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 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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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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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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As long as we keep searching, the answers come.
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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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Diamonds & Rust started off as another song. Then the words started to morph. When you write a song that deep, the words come from some place else. But when the songs stop coming, it would be so contrived to try and force it. Since then I've just been doing other people's music.
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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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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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Sometimes I get lonesome for a storm. A fullblown storm where everything changes.
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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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