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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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Staten Island
New York City
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If you don't have music, you have silence. There is power in both.
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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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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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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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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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The foundation of my beliefs is the same as it was when I was 10. Non-violence.
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Noise is an imposition on sanity, and we live in very noisy times.
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If you swing both ways, you really swing. I just figure you double your pleasure.
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If you're gonna sing meaningful songs, you have to be committed to living a life that backs that up.
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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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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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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 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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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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If it's natural to kill, how come men have to go into training to learn how?
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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 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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Sometimes I get lonesome for a storm. A fullblown storm where everything changes.
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We both know what memories can bring / They bring diamonds and rust.
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