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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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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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Nonviolence is a flop. The only bigger flop is violence.
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I'd hear a tune in my head and the words would come. And then, very suddenly it just stopped. It seemed too stilted to try and learn how to write a song, to go to round robins and to learn things from other people on how to write a song. So I just stopped and did other things.
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Noise is an imposition on sanity, and we live in very noisy times.
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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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My life is a crystal teardrop. There are snowflakes falling in the teardrop and little figures trudging in slow motion.
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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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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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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.
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If you don't have music, you have silence. There is power in both.
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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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We both know what memories can bring / They bring diamonds and rust.
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Mostly what I listen to when I turn on my little iPod is opera.
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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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As we know, forgiveness of oneself is the hardest of all the forgivenesses.
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As long as we keep searching, the answers come.
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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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The easiest kind of relationship for me is with ten thousand people. The hardest is with one.
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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 went to jail for 11 days for disturbing the peace I was trying to disturb the war.
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