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The foundation of my beliefs is the same as it was when I was 10. Non-violence.
Joan Baez
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Joan Baez
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: January 9
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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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Social change really cannot happen unless people are willing to take a risk, and they were. And I was so moved by that, and of course by the way that he spoke, that made a huge dent in my belief system and my spirit.
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Mostly what I listen to when I turn on my little iPod is opera.
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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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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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As long as we keep searching, the answers come.
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We're not really pacifists, we're nonviolent soldiers.
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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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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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If you swing both ways, you really swing. I just figure you double your pleasure.
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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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We both know what memories can bring / They bring diamonds and rust.
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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 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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There is chaos. There's bloodshed. There's carnage.
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If you don't have music, you have silence. There is power in both.
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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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Action is the antidote to despair.
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