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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.

Joan Baez

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Joan Baez
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: January 9
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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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We're not really pacifists, we're nonviolent soldiers.
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I have heard more than once, 'Shut up and sing!' and I get it now.
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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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Social change really cannot happen unless people are willing to take a risk, and they were. And I was so moved by that, and of course by the way that he spoke, that made a huge dent in my belief system and my spirit.
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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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I've never had a humble opinion. If you've got an opinion, why be humble about it?
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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 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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The foundation of my beliefs is the same as it was when I was 10. Non-violence.
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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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If you don't have music, you have silence. There is power in both.
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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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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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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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If it's natural to kill, how come men have to go into training to learn how?
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As long as we keep searching, the answers come.
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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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Noise is an imposition on sanity, and we live in very noisy times.
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We both know what memories can bring / They bring diamonds and rust.
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