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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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Staten Island
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Sometimes I get lonesome for a storm. A fullblown storm where everything changes.
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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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Put tattoos all up and down our thighs, do anything our parents would despise. Take uppers, downers, blues, and reds and yellows, our brains are turning into jello.
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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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We're not really pacifists, we're nonviolent soldiers.
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Action is the antidote to despair.
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Mostly what I listen to when I turn on my little iPod is opera.
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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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The only thing that's been a worse flop than the organization of nonviolence has been the organization of violence.
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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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As long as we keep searching, the answers come.
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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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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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As we know, forgiveness of oneself is the hardest of all the forgivenesses.
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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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Diamonds & Rust started off as another song. Then the words started to morph. When you write a song that deep, the words come from some place else. But when the songs stop coming, it would be so contrived to try and force it. Since then I've just been doing other people's music.
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Nonviolence is a flop. The only bigger flop is violence.
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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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The point on nonviolence is to build a floor, a strong new floor, beneath which we can no longer sink.
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