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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: 84
Born: 1941
Born: January 9
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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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The only thing that's been a worse flop than the organization of nonviolence has been the organization of violence.
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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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Sometimes I get lonesome for a storm. A fullblown storm where everything changes.
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If you don't have music, you have silence. There is power in both.
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I would say that I'm a nonviolent soldier. In place of weapons of violence, you have to use your mind, your heart, your sense of humor, every faculty available to you...because no one has the right to take the life of another human being.
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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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The point on nonviolence is to build a floor, a strong new floor, beneath which we can no longer sink.
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Noise is an imposition on sanity, and we live in very noisy times.
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I don't think of myself as a symbol of the sixties, but I do think of myself as a symbol of following through on your beliefs.
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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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You may not know it, but at the far end of despair, there is a white clearing where one is almost happy.
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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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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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Nonviolence is a flop. The only bigger flop is violence.
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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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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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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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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 it's natural to kill, how come men have to go into training to learn how?
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