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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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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 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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The easiest kind of relationship for me is with ten thousand people. The hardest is with one.
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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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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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Noise is an imposition on sanity, and we live in very noisy times.
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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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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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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've been obsessed with stopping people from blowing each other's brains out since I was ten.
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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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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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As long as we keep searching, the answers come.
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All of us are survivors, but how many of us transcend survival?
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As we know, forgiveness of oneself is the hardest of all the forgivenesses.
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We both know what memories can bring / They bring diamonds and rust.
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Mostly what I listen to when I turn on my little iPod is opera.
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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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We're not really pacifists, we're nonviolent soldiers.
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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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