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I've been obsessed with stopping people from blowing each other's brains out since I was ten.
Joan Baez
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Joan Baez
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: January 9
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In other words, it is what I do in the world that matters. When I traveled for three months in the Mideast, the places I wanted to go back to were Turkey and the Gaza Strip. It has to do with what Gandhi said: he found God in the eyes of the poor. Those are the places which were so moving that they were just unbearable.
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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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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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If you don't have music, you have silence. There is power in both.
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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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As long as we keep searching, the answers come.
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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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If it's natural to kill, how come men have to go into training to learn how?
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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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Sometimes I get lonesome for a storm. A fullblown storm where everything changes.
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I went to jail for 11 days for disturbing the peace I was trying to disturb the war.
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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 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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As we know, forgiveness of oneself is the hardest of all the forgivenesses.
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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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All of us are survivors, but how many of us transcend survival?
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