Joan Baez Quotes

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.

Joan Baez

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• The first thing one must remember about film is that it is a young medium. And it is essential for every responsible artist to cultivate the ground that has been left fallow.

  

  Orson Welles
  • Remember
  • Artist
  • Young

• I went through a phase when I was 13 where I would only fall in love with people over the age of 19 or 20. I never had a real relationship with any of these people, but it was definitely the guy I wanted to hang out with and wanted to go on trips with. I would be like, 'But, Daddy, he's a musician!'.

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • People
  • Love
  • Age

• I have run two Olympic 'A' standard times over the past 12 months and with the time I ran at the African Championships last week I know my speed and fitness are constantly improving so that I will peak in time for the Olympics.

  

  Oscar Pistorius
  • Time
  • Past
  • Fitness

• If you want to change things, it requires bravery.

  

  Naftali Bennett
  • Want
  • Change
  • Bravery

• I think music needs danger; it needs risk.

  

  Taylor Momsen
  • Music
  • Think
  • Risk

• The highest compliment that you can pay me is to say that I work hard every day, that I never dog it.

  

  Wayne Gretzky
  • Work
  • Day
  • Dog

• One of the things I wonder is whether it's good that the whole free model makes a lot of people listen to more of your music. I'm wondering if it devalues it, it becomes disposable, because you can get it so easily.

  

  Tablo
  • People
  • Good
  • Music

• So I moved to Europe and only came back when directors like Robert Altman would call me after they'd seen my work in Full Metal Jacket.

  

  Vincent D'Onofrio
  • Work
  • Directors
  • Europe

• My nephew has type 1 diabetes, and it's my goal and hope that in his lifetime there will be a cure for diabetes. There's no place better to give the money to than the Juvenile Diabetes Association.

  

  Abby Wambach
  • Money
  • Hope
  • Goal

• Post traumatic stress disorder starts out with nightmares, flashbacks and actually reliving the event. And this happens over and over and over and over in your mind. If you let it go on, it can become chronic and become hard if not impossible to treat.

  

  Dale Archer
  • Mind
  • Stress
  • Impossible

• Initially, I studied philosophy, because it claimed to give you answers to the meaning of existence, but it didn't: It was basically a semantics game.

  

  Talulah Riley
  • Game
  • Philosophy
  • Meaning

• I think, the people around home are very supportive to us.

  

  Kate Middleton
  • People
  • Home
  • Think

• I'm quite a precious painter; my style is a messy fine art - sort of impressionist. I do portraits, I love painting other artists, but recently, I've been playing around with self portraits, putting on different characters.

  

  Tali Lennox
  • Art
  • Style
  • Characters

• One thing I've done is surround myself with people who are as good as me or better.

  

  Venus Williams
  • People
  • Good
  • Done

• I was born technically in D.C., and then my family moved to the Columbia area when I was in elementary school. It was right on the line between Clarksville and Columbia in Howard County. I remember it being just like a peaceful, safe atmosphere. I always felt connected to the woods and that whole suburban feel.

  

  Gallant
  • Family
  • School
  • Remember

• Ultimately love is everything.

  

  M. Scott Peck
  • For Him
  • Love Is
  • Ultimately

• If your partner is consistently unhappy, it won't matter if they're incredibly sexy, wildly funny, impressively successful, adorably charismatic - your relationship will be weighed down under the heaviness of their moods.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • Funny
  • Relationship
  • Sexy

• My Smiths, my Carters, the Cashes - everybody embraced me and held my arms up when I couldn't do it myself.

  

  Carlene Carter
  • Up
  • Me
  • Myself

• For me, acting is a series of impressions rather than trying to find one line through to the end, which risks becoming more of a presentation.

  

  Ken Stott
  • Trying

• I was born in Norfolk, Virginia. I began school there, the first year of public school. When I was 7, the family shifted back to North Carolina. I grew up in North Carolina; had my schooling through the college level in North Carolina.

  

  Ella Baker
  • Up
  • Family
  • School

• I'm a painter, really. To be successful, you have to go to Hollywood, and I didn't like to travel.

  

  H. R. Giger
  • You
  • Travel
  • Successful

• I should not get Social Security. I think it's a travesty for a man of my success and of my means to get anything from the federal government.

  

  Kenneth Langone
  • Success

• This would be a distortion of their meaning, since the pictures are intimate and intense, and are the opposite of what is decorative; and have been painted in a scale of normal living rather than an institutional scale.

  

  Mark Rothko

• 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.

  

  Joan Baez
  • College