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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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If you're gonna sing meaningful songs, you have to be committed to living a life that backs that up.
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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've been obsessed with stopping people from blowing each other's brains out since I was ten.
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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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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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If it's natural to kill, how come men have to go into training to learn how?
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There is chaos. There's bloodshed. There's carnage.
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