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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.

Joan Baez

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Joan Baez
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: January 9
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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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I went to jail for 11 days for disturbing the peace I was trying to disturb the war.
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There is chaos. There's bloodshed. There's carnage.
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