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If people have to put labels ...

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.

Joan Baez 91 quotes

I've been obsessed with stopp...

I've been obsessed with stopping people from blowing each other's brains out since I was ten.

Joan Baez 91 quotes

I would say that I'm a nonvio...

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.

Joan Baez 91 quotes

Sometimes I think that it is ...

Sometimes I think that it is enough to say that if we don't sit down and shut up once in a while we'll lose our minds even earlier than we had expected. Noise is an imposition on sanity, and we live in very noisy times.

Joan Baez 91 quotes

Only you and I can help the s...

Only you and I can help the sun rise each coming morning. If we don't, it may drench itself out in sorrow.

Joan Baez 91 quotes

I was trying to disturb the w...

I was trying to disturb the war.

Joan Baez 91 quotes

It [my vocal] didn't sound li...

It [my vocal] didn't sound like what I wanted to hear; the vibrato isn't what I liked anymore. So I got myself to an ear, nose and throat guy who does a lot of work with singers, and I was hoping there was a big wart on my vocal cords or something and they could scrape it off and I could have the voice I wanted. But he said, "No, for 71, that's your voice."

Joan Baez 91 quotes

"Nasty Man" isn't a laughing ...

"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.

Joan Baez 91 quotes

I think the question that nob...

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.

Joan Baez 91 quotes

There's very little I can sin...

There's very little I can sing now. When I asked my first voice teacher, who was the best one, "When will I know when to stop singing?" he said, "Your voice will tell you." And it is very, very difficult to sing now.

Joan Baez 91 quotes

My life is a crystal teardrop...

My life is a crystal teardrop. There are snowflakes falling in the teardrop and little figures trudging in slow motion.

Joan Baez 91 quotes

It sounds corny, but it's abs...

It sounds corny, but it's absolutely true: A song chooses me. I don't go looking for a certain kind of lyric. It kind of develops its own little arc and I'll just see what happens.

Joan Baez 91 quotes

The point on nonviolence is t...

The point on nonviolence is to build a floor, a strong new floor, beneath which we can no longer sink.

Joan Baez 91 quotes

To sing is to love and affirm...

To sing is to love and affirm, to fly and to soar, to coast into the hearts of the people who listen to tell them that life is to live, that love is there, that nothing is a promise, but that beauty exists, and must be hunted for and found.

Joan Baez 91 quotes

Social change really cannot h...

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.

Joan Baez 91 quotes

There's a consensus out that ...

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.

Joan Baez 91 quotes

I was addicted to rhythm 'n' ...

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.

Joan Baez 91 quotes

Instead of getting hard ourse...

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.

Joan Baez 91 quotes

You don't get to choose how y...

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.

Joan Baez 91 quotes

The hardest song to write is ...

The hardest song to write is a protest song, a topical song with meaning.

Joan Baez 91 quotes

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