Joan Baez Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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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 went to jail for 11 days for disturbing the peace; I was trying to disturb the war.”
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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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“Someone had to change the world. And obviously I was the one for the job.”
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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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“I would say that I'm a nonviolent soldier. In place of weapons of violence, you have to use your mind, your heart, your sense of humor, every faculty available to you...because no one has the right to take the life of another human being.”
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“Nonviolence is a flop. The only bigger flop is violence.”
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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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“I think music has the power to transform people, and in doing so, it has the power to transform situations - some large and some small.”
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“Instead of getting hard ourselves and trying to compete, women should try and give their best qualities to men - bring them softness, teach them how to cry.”
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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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“If people have to put labels on me, I'd prefer the first label to be human being, the second label to be pacifist, and the third to be folk singer.”
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“The point of nonviolence is to build a floor, a strong new floor, beneath which we can no longer sink. A platform which stands a few feet above napalm, torture, exploitation, poison gas, A and H bombs, the works. Give man a decent place to stand.”
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“As long as one keeps searching, the answers will come.”
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“It seems to me that those songs that have been any good, I have nothing much to do with the writing of them. The words have just crawled down my sleeve and come out on the page.”
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“We're not really pacifists, we're nonviolent soldiers.”
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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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“Noise is an imposition on sanity, and we live in very noisy times.”
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“Living so fully, I can't imagine what any drug could do for me.”
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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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“My dread is for my show to be a nostalgia act. So the key to it is how do we keep it fresh?”
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“The hardest song to write is a protest song, a topical song with meaning.”
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“People say I'm such a pessimist, but I always was. It never stopped me from doing what I had to do. I would say I'm a realist.”
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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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“Sometimes I get lonesome for a storm. A full blown storm where everything changes. The sky goes through four days in an hour, the trees wail, little animals skitter in the mud and everything gets dark and goes completely wild. But it is really God - playing music in his favourite cathedral in heaven - shattering stained glass - playing a gigantic organ - thundering on the keys - perfect harmony - perfect joy.”
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“Seeing you sleeping peacefully on your back among your stuffed ducks, bears and basset hounds, would remind me that no matter how good the next day might be, certain moments were gone forever because we could not go backwards in time.”
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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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“If you swing both ways, you really swing. I just figure you double your pleasure.”
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