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I think the question that nobody wanted to deal with is the question they're posing: did my kid die in vain? Because the answer is too awful.

Joan Baez

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Joan Baez
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: January 9
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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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The foundation of my beliefs is the same as it was when I was 10. Non-violence.
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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 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 went to jail for 11 days for disturbing the peace I was trying to disturb the war.
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During the 'ballad' years for me, the politics was latent I was just falling in love with the ballads and my boyfriend. And there was the beauty of the songs.
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I didn't study anything really. I didn't learn out of the books because I couldn't read music very well, so it is what they say it is - you learn from other people. And my cohorts and I would sneak around the coffee shops and hear stuff we wanted to learn, and then you ask whoever was playing it to teach you.
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