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There is chaos. There's bloodshed. There's carnage.

Joan Baez

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Joan Baez
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: January 9
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If you swing both ways, you really swing. I just figure you double your pleasure.
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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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I've been obsessed with stopping people from blowing each other's brains out since I was ten.
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The easiest kind of relationship for me is with ten thousand people. The hardest is with one.
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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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The point on nonviolence is to build a floor, a strong new floor, beneath which we can no longer sink.
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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 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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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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There's a consensus out that it's OK to kill when your government decides who to kill. If you kill inside the country you get in trouble. If you kill outside the country, right time, right season, latest enemy, you get a medal.
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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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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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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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As long as we keep searching, the answers come.
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Noise is an imposition on sanity, and we live in very noisy times.
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