Joan Baez

Musician

1941-01-09

Joan Baez is an American singer, songwriter, and activist known for her role in the 1960s folk revival and civil rights movement. She is recognized for her distinctive vocal style and political advocacy.

Books by Joan Baez

And a Voice to Sing With
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Daybreak
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Joan Baez Song Book
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Quotes by Joan Baez

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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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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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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The hardest song to write is a protest song, a topical song with meaning.
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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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If it's natural to kill, how come men have to go into training to learn how?
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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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Action is the antidote to despair.
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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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The search is in the doing.
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God must have something to do with joy ... and with sadness.
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You don't get to choose how you're going to die. Or when. You can decide how you're going to live now.
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You don't get to choose how you're going to die. Or when. You can only decide how you are going to live. Now.
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Hypothetical questions get hypothetical answers.
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Instead of getting hard ourselves, women should try and give their best qualities-bring them softness, teach them how to cry.
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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.
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The point of nonviolence is to build a floor, a strong new floor, beneath which we can no longer sink. A platform which stands a few feet above napalm, torture, exploitation, poison gas, A and H bombs, the works.
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That's all non-violence is-organized love.
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We're not really pacifists, we're nonviolent soldiers.
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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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