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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: 83
Born: 1941
Born: January 9
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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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The point on nonviolence is to build a floor, a strong new floor, beneath which we can no longer sink.
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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've never had a humble opinion. If you've got an opinion, why be humble about it?
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Noise is an imposition on sanity, and we live in very noisy times.
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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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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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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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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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There's very little I can sing now. When I asked my first voice teacher, who was the best one, When will I know when to stop singing? he said, Your voice will tell you. And it is very, very difficult to sing 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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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 foundation of my beliefs is the same as it was when I was 10. Non-violence.
Joan Baez
As long as we keep searching, the answers come.
Joan Baez
I've been obsessed with stopping people from blowing each other's brains out since I was ten.
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Sometimes I get lonesome for a storm. A fullblown storm where everything changes.
Joan Baez
Action is the antidote to despair.
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I was trying to disturb the war.
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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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As we know, forgiveness of oneself is the hardest of all the forgivenesses.
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