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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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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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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 easiest kind of relationship for me is with ten thousand people. The hardest is with one.
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Mostly what I listen to when I turn on my little iPod is opera.
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We were raised with that discussion about violence and non-violence, and we all pretty much came up on the side of non-violence. That became my foundation with politics and my livelihood.
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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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I've never had a humble opinion. If you've got an opinion, why be humble about it?
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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 am so disconnected from the world of rock 'n' roll. I was always peripheral, partly because of the drug culture. I was not involved in that.
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You may not know it, but at the far end of despair, there is a white clearing where one is almost happy.
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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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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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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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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 hope in people, in individuals. Because you don't know what's going to rise from the ruins.
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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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If you swing both ways, you really swing. I just figure you double your pleasure.
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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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There's a consensus out that it's OK to kill when your government decides who to kill. If you kill inside the country you get in trouble. If you kill outside the country, right time, right season, latest enemy, you get a medal.
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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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