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I have heard more than once, 'Shut up and sing!' and I get it now.
Joan Baez
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Joan Baez
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: January 9
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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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There is chaos. There's bloodshed. There's carnage.
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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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If it's natural to kill, how come men have to go into training to learn how?
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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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As we know, forgiveness of oneself is the hardest of all the forgivenesses.
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If you swing both ways, you really swing. I just figure you double your pleasure.
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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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Mostly what I listen to when I turn on my little iPod is opera.
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As long as we keep searching, the answers come.
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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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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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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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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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We both know what memories can bring / They bring diamonds and rust.
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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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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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