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If you're gonna sing meaningful songs, you have to be committed to living a life that backs that up.

Joan Baez

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Joan Baez
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: January 9
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Somebody else does the rigor and then I listen. I have an assistant, and my manager, and other people who hunt and find and send it to me, and then I just figure out which ones I can do justice to.
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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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As we know, forgiveness of oneself is the hardest of all the forgivenesses.
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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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I have heard more than once, 'Shut up and sing!' and I get it now.
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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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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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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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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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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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Mostly what I listen to when I turn on my little iPod is opera.
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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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As long as we keep searching, the answers come.
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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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We both know what memories can bring / They bring diamonds and rust.
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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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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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