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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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We both know what memories can bring / They bring diamonds and rust.
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I was trying to disturb the war.
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Nonviolence is a flop. The only bigger flop is violence.
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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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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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I have heard more than once, 'Shut up and sing!' and I get it now.
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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 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 went to jail for 11 days for disturbing the peace I was trying to disturb the war.
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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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During the 'ballad' years for me, the politics was latent I was just falling in love with the ballads and my boyfriend. And there was the beauty of the songs.
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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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Noise is an imposition on sanity, and we live in very noisy times.
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There is chaos. There's bloodshed. There's carnage.
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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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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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The only thing that's been a worse flop than the organization of nonviolence has been the organization of 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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