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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: 84
Born: 1941
Born: January 9
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Staten Island
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If you swing both ways, you really swing. I just figure you double your pleasure.
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If you don't have music, you have silence. There is power in both.
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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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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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I was trying to disturb the war.
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We're not really pacifists, we're nonviolent soldiers.
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As long as we keep searching, the answers come.
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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 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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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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I have hope in people, in individuals. Because you don't know what's going to rise from the ruins.
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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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I went to jail for 11 days for disturbing the peace I was trying to disturb the war.
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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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