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Joan Baez
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: January 9
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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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Noise is an imposition on sanity, and we live in very noisy times.
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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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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 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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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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All of us are survivors, but how many of us transcend survival?
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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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My life is a crystal teardrop. There are snowflakes falling in the teardrop and little figures trudging in slow motion.
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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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Nasty Man isn't a laughing matter, but you have to laugh anyway. The song, itself, becomes something of a laughing matter because we'd go crazy if we didn't keep laughing.
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You don't get to choose how you're going to die, or when. You can only decide how you're going to live. Now.
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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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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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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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The only thing that's been a worse flop than the organization of nonviolence has been the organization of violence.
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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 was trying to disturb the war.
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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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