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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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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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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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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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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 went to jail for 11 days for disturbing the peace I was trying to disturb the war.
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Noise is an imposition on sanity, and we live in very noisy times.
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Sometimes I get lonesome for a storm. A fullblown storm where everything changes.
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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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My life is a crystal teardrop. There are snowflakes falling in the teardrop and little figures trudging in slow motion.
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Nonviolence is a flop. The only bigger flop is violence.
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If you swing both ways, you really swing. I just figure you double your pleasure.
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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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Action is the antidote to despair.
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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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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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All of us are survivors, but how many of us transcend survival?
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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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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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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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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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