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All of us are survivors, but how many of us transcend survival?
Joan Baez
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Joan Baez
Age: 84
Born: 1941
Born: January 9
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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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Noise is an imposition on sanity, and we live in very noisy times.
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The longer you practice nonviolence and the meditative qualities of it that you will need, the more likely you are to do something intelligent in any situation.
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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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Mostly what I listen to when I turn on my little iPod is opera.
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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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Action is the antidote to despair.
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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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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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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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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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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 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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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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If it's natural to kill, how come men have to go into training to learn how?
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I have heard more than once, 'Shut up and sing!' and I get it now.
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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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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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If you swing both ways, you really swing. I just figure you double your pleasure.
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