Joan Baez Quotes

During the 'ballad' years for me, the politics was latent; I was just falling in love with the ballads and my boyfriend. And there was the beauty of the songs.

Joan Baez

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• Today, India is a nuclear weapons state.

  

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• It was endlessly entertaining, watching people beat each other up. All the little kids in the neighborhood would come and watch... and then we'd beat them up as well.

  

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• It is a wise tune that knows its own father, and I like my music to be the legitimate offspring of respectable parents.

  

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• In current times, our moral uproar is best reserved for those who aspire to stone men or women to death, not those who consensually watch women - or men, for that matter - dance.

  

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• People around me like me the best when I'm depressed because I'm a bit more passive.

  

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• If you think health care is expensive now, just wait 'til it's free.

  

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• I think my whole generation's mission is to kill the cliche.

  

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• I suppose that is my central obsession. What we owe to society, what we owe to ourselves.

  

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• Though my plans at the moment are vague, I can assure you that I'll never run for the Senate in New York.

  

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• The task for sociology is to come to the help of the individual. We have to be in service of freedom. It is something we have lost sight of.

  

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• I used to make my own food and ate on my own in my room.

  

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• If food is labeled, some people might choose to eat stuff that's genetically modified. They might decide they love it. But give us a choice.

  

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• I'm a real animal lover. I adore animals of all shapes and sizes.

  

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• A friend of mine, a Hispanic entrepreneur asked me a question sometime ago, he said, 'When is the last time you saw a Hispanic panhandler?' I think it's a great question. I'll tell you, in my life I've never once have seen a Hispanic panhandler, because in our community, it would be viewed as shameful to be out on the street begging.

  

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• It's a fine line. If you withhold too much, you come across as wooden - as I've often been described in some movies. Fair enough. I believe that the best performances are the ones that an audience has to search for.

  

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• People say free trade causes dislocation. In actual fact, it's the lowering of trade barriers that causes the dislocation.

  

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• Especially in our society, for a woman to be ambitious and controlling, that's a negative. Whereas me as a person, I don't think that's negative. If I wasn't ambitious and controlling to a certain extent, I wouldn't be where I am today.

  

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• Ecosystems are holy. The word "environmental" is a deadly compromise itself. It's a policy word that lives only in the head, and barely there.

  

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• Thinking every minutes about Australia. Praying for rain and some political changes. Byron Bay, Sydney, Melbourne, and Earth Frequency Festival, let’s do this!!! I’ll donate all the benefits of this tour to trustful fundraisers.

  

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• I was never the girl in high school who had a boyfriend for years. My longest relationship has been 18 months. I've thought maybe I'm really superficial and unable to have a relationship. What I've found is that people are attracted by my independence, and then they try to squelch it.

  

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• A heaven on earth I have won by wooing thee.

  

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• During the 'ballad' years for me, the politics was latent; I was just falling in love with the ballads and my boyfriend. And there was the beauty of the songs.

  

  Joan Baez
  • Boyfriend