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If you swing both ways, you really swing. I just figure you double your pleasure.
Joan Baez
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Joan Baez
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: January 9
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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'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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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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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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As long as we keep searching, the answers come.
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We both know what memories can bring / They bring diamonds and rust.
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As we know, forgiveness of oneself is the hardest of all the forgivenesses.
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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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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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The point on nonviolence is to build a floor, a strong new floor, beneath which we can no longer sink.
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During the 'ballad' years for me, the politics was latent I was just falling in love with the ballads and my boyfriend. And there was the beauty of the songs.
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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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The easiest kind of relationship for me is with ten thousand people. The hardest is with one.
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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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I have been true to the principles of nonviolence, developing a stronger and stronger aversion to the ideologies of both the far right and the far left and a deeper sense of rage and sorrow over the suffering they continue to produce all over the world.
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