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If you don't have music, you have silence. There is power in both.
Joan Baez
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Joan Baez
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: January 9
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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 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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My life is a crystal teardrop. There are snowflakes falling in the teardrop and little figures trudging in slow motion.
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I have heard more than once, 'Shut up and sing!' and I get it now.
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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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Nonviolence is a flop. The only bigger flop is violence.
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As we know, forgiveness of oneself is the hardest of all the forgivenesses.
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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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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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We're not really pacifists, we're nonviolent soldiers.
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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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Sometimes I get lonesome for a storm. A fullblown storm where everything changes.
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There is chaos. There's bloodshed. There's carnage.
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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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Nasty Man isn't a laughing matter, but you have to laugh anyway. The song, itself, becomes something of a laughing matter because we'd go crazy if we didn't keep laughing.
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Mostly what I listen to when I turn on my little iPod is opera.
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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've been obsessed with stopping people from blowing each other's brains out since I was ten.
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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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