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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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There is chaos. There's bloodshed. There's carnage.
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As we know, forgiveness of oneself is the hardest of all the forgivenesses.
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Social change really cannot happen unless people are willing to take a risk, and they were. And I was so moved by that, and of course by the way that he spoke, that made a huge dent in my belief system and my spirit.
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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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I have hope in people, in individuals. Because you don't know what's going to rise from the ruins.
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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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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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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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Nonviolence is a flop. The only bigger flop is violence.
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We both know what memories can bring / They bring diamonds and rust.
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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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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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I have heard more than once, 'Shut up and sing!' and I get it now.
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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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If you swing both ways, you really swing. I just figure you double your pleasure.
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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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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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If you don't have music, you have silence. There is power in both.
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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 was trying to disturb the war.
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