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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: 84
Born: 1941
Born: January 9
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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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Noise is an imposition on sanity, and we live in very noisy times.
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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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We're not really pacifists, we're nonviolent soldiers.
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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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Nonviolence is a flop. The only bigger flop is violence.
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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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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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Sometimes I get lonesome for a storm. A fullblown storm where everything changes.
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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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Action is the antidote to despair.
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I was trying to disturb the war.
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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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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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