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

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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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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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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 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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The longer you practice nonviolence and the meditative qualities of it that you will need, the more likely you are to do something intelligent in any situation.
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There is chaos. There's bloodshed. There's carnage.
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We both know what memories can bring / They bring diamonds and rust.
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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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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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Sometimes I get lonesome for a storm. A fullblown storm where everything changes.
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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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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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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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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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Mostly what I listen to when I turn on my little iPod is opera.
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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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I've been obsessed with stopping people from blowing each other's brains out since I was ten.
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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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