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Noise is an imposition on sanity, and we live in very noisy times.

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Joan Baez
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: January 9
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Staten Island
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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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As long as we keep searching, the answers come.
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Somebody else does the rigor and then I listen. I have an assistant, and my manager, and other people who hunt and find and send it to me, and then I just figure out which ones I can do justice to.
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