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I have hope in people, in individuals. Because you don't know what's going to rise from the ruins.

Joan Baez

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Joan Baez
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: January 9
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We were raised with that discussion about violence and non-violence, and we all pretty much came up on the side of non-violence. That became my foundation with politics and my livelihood.
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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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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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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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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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If it's natural to kill, how come men have to go into training to learn how?
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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 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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We both know what memories can bring / They bring diamonds and rust.
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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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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 foundation of my beliefs is the same as it was when I was 10. Non-violence.
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Nonviolence is a flop. The only bigger flop is violence.
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If you don't have music, you have silence. There is power in both.
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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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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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Mostly what I listen to when I turn on my little iPod is opera.
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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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The only thing that's been a worse flop than the organization of nonviolence has been the organization of violence.
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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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