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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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Sometimes I get lonesome for a storm. A fullblown storm where everything changes.
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You don't get to choose how you're going to die, or when. You can only decide how you're going to live. Now.
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There is chaos. There's bloodshed. There's carnage.
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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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I've never had a humble opinion. If you've got an opinion, why be humble about it?
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If you don't have music, you have silence. There is power in both.
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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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I was writing Diamonds and Rust' and it had nothing to do with what it turned out to be. I don't remember what it is, but I think I was writing a song. It was literally interrupted by a phone call, and it just took another curve and it came out to be what it was.
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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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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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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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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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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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We both know what memories can bring / They bring diamonds and rust.
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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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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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