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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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Joan Baez
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: January 9
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Nonviolence is a flop. The only bigger flop is violence.
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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 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 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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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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All of us are survivors, but how many of us transcend survival?
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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 was trying to disturb the war.
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We both know what memories can bring / They bring diamonds and rust.
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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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The only thing that's been a worse flop than the organization of nonviolence has been the organization of violence.
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Nasty Man isn't a laughing matter, but you have to laugh anyway. The song, itself, becomes something of a laughing matter because we'd go crazy if we didn't keep laughing.
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As we know, forgiveness of oneself is the hardest of all the forgivenesses.
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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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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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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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The point on nonviolence is to build a floor, a strong new floor, beneath which we can no longer sink.
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I've been obsessed with stopping people from blowing each other's brains out since I was ten.
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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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