Joan Baez quotes - page 2

Miracles bowl me over And often will they do so Now I think I was asleep till I heard The voice of the great Caruso Bring infinity home Let me embrace it one more time Make it the lilies of the field Or Caruso in his prime. (Joan Baez)
We are the warriors of the sun The golden boys and the golden girls For a better world. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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I have hope in people, in individuals. Because you don't know what's going to rise from the ruins. View quote
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I've never had a humble opinion. If you've got an opinion, why be humble about it? View quote
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Someone had to change the world. And obviously I was the one for the job. View quote
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Lyrics for songs written for the film; the music for the songs composed by Ennio Morricone. View quote
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Nonviolence is a flop. The only bigger flop is violence. View quote
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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. (Joan Baez)
The hardest song to write is a protest song, a topical song with meaning. View quote
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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. View quote
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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? View quote
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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. View quote
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Mostly what I listen to when I turn on my little iPod is opera. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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That's all nonviolence is - organized love. View quote
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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. (Joan Baez)
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. View quote
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My art, work, family and friends, my son Gabe, and a curious relationship with God remain the sustaining forces in my life. View quote
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I had an affair with a girl when I was twenty-two. It was wonderful. It happened, I assume, after an overdose of unhappiness at the end of an affair with a man, when I had a need for softness and understanding. I assume that the homosexuality within me, which people love to say is in all of us, made itself felt at that time, and saved me from becoming cold and bitter toward everyone. I slowly mended, and since the affair with Kimmie have not had another affair with a woman nor the conscious desire to. View quote
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There was a revolution going on all around us, and if a white businessman and his family wanted to hear me sing "Fair and Tender Maidens," they had to come and sit in this boiling hot room and integrate an audience. View quote
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