Joan Baez Quotes
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True he was a vocal miracle But that's only secondary It's the soul of the monarch butterfly That I find a little bit scary
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Nonviolence is a flop. The only bigger flop is violence.
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I'm lucky to have met so many people who have been involved in peace and who have been peace prize winners.
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Rebellion, revolution don't need dollars They need this instead Imagination, suffering, light and love And care for every human being You never steal, you never kill You are a part of hope and life The revolution goes from man to man And heart to heart And I sense when I look at the stars That we are children of life Death is small
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Blessed are the persecuted And blessed are the pure in heart Blessed are the merciful And blessed are the ones who mourn
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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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That's all nonviolence is - organized love.
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We are the warriors of the sun The golden boys and the golden girls For a better world
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Hypothetical questions get hypothetical answers.
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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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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 have hope in people, in individuals. Because you don't know what's going to rise from the ruins.
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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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Mostly what I listen to when I turn on my little iPod is opera.
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The only thing that's been a worse flop than the organization of non-violence has been the organization of violence.
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I spend a lot of time with Buddhists. I'm not a Buddhist, but their relationship with death interests me.
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Miracles bowl me over And often will they do so Now I think I was asleep till I heard The voice of the great CarusoBring infinity home Let me embrace it one more time Make it the lilies of the field Or Caruso in his prime
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Bangladesh, Bangladesh When the sun sinks in the west Die a million people of the Bangladesh
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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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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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As we know, forgiveness of oneself is the hardest of all the forgivenesses.
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Well you burst on the scene Already a legend The unwashed phenomenon The original vagabond You strayed into my arms And there you stayed Temporarily lost at sea The Madonna was yours for free Yes the girl on the half-shell Would keep you unharmed
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Action is the antidote to despair.
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I see a young man playing 'Plaisir d'Amour' on guitar. I knew I didn't want to go to college; I was already playing a ukulele, and after I saw that, I was hooked. All I wanted to do was play guitar and sing.