Joan Baez Quotes
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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.
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My father was a physicist and also an activist. My first public protest was with my dad at Stanford. I came by all that honestly.
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The hardest song to write is a protest song, a topical song with meaning.
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Yes, your father and Bartolo They have fallen And yesterday they fought and fell But in the quest for joy and freedom And in the struggle of this life you'll find That there is love and sometimes more Yes, in the struggle you will find That you can love and be loved alsoForgive me all who are my friends I am with you I beg of you, do not cry
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With the precision of a hummingbird's heart Was the lord of the monarch butterflies One-time ruler of the world of art
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Some of us may offer a surprise Recently have you looked in our eyes Maybe we're your conscience in disguise
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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.
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The longer you practice nonviolence and the meditative qualities of it that you will need, the more likely you are to do something intelligent in any situation.
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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.
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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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Someone had to change the world. And obviously I was the one for the job.
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We're the children of the 80's, haven't we grown We're tender as a lotus and we're tougher than stone And the age of our innocence is somewhere in the garden
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Here's to you, Nicola and Bart Rest forever here in our hearts The last and final moment is yours That agony is your triumph
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I didn't go through the routine of singing in small clubs and doing open mics and working so hard the way a lot of people do and did. It was just an overnight kind of thing.
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Perhaps he's just a vehicle To bear us to the hills of Truth That's Truth spelled with a great big T And peddled in the mystic's booth There are oh so many miracles That the western sky exposes Why go looking for lilacs When you're lying in a bed of roses?
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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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The foundation of my beliefs is the same as it was when I was 10. Non-violence.
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We both know what memories can bring They bring diamonds and rust
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Now you're telling me You're not nostalgic Then give me another word for it You who are so good with words And at keeping things vague Because I need some of that vagueness now It's all come back too clearly Yes I loved you dearly And if you're offering me diamonds and rust I've already paid
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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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I've never been an optimist.
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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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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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I went to jail for 11 days for disturbing the peace; I was trying to disturb the war.