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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.
Joan Baez
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Joan Baez
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: January 9
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I was writing Diamonds and Rust' and it had nothing to do with what it turned out to be. I don't remember what it is, but I think I was writing a song. It was literally interrupted by a phone call, and it just took another curve and it came out to be what it was.
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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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The foundation of my beliefs is the same as it was when I was 10. Non-violence.
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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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My life is a crystal teardrop. There are snowflakes falling in the teardrop and little figures trudging in slow motion.
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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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The easiest kind of relationship for me is with ten thousand people. The hardest is with one.
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I wasn't popular in school, I was Mexican, I was all these inappropriate things. I started playing the ukulele and taking it to school, and I realized people liked listening to it. I would play it to comfort myself at home, and I'd play rhythm and blues songs that had four chords. That's how it started.
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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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Mostly what I listen to when I turn on my little iPod is opera.
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If you swing both ways, you really swing. I just figure you double your pleasure.
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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 have heard more than once, 'Shut up and sing!' and I get it now.
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We're not really pacifists, we're nonviolent soldiers.
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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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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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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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Noise is an imposition on sanity, and we live in very noisy times.
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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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