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I went to jail for 11 days for disturbing the peace I was trying to disturb the war.
Joan Baez
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Joan Baez
Age: 84
Born: 1941
Born: January 9
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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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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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Noise is an imposition on sanity, and we live in very noisy times.
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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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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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I was trying to disturb the war.
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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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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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Mostly what I listen to when I turn on my little iPod is opera.
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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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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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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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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 hope in people, in individuals. Because you don't know what's going to rise from the ruins.
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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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