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All Quotes by author - Joan Baez

" Action is the antidote to despair. "

" As we know, forgiveness of oneself is the hardest of all the forgivenesses. "

" 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. "

" Hypothetical questions get hypothetical answers. "

" If it's natural to kill, how come men have to go into training to learn how? "

" 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. "

" I have hope in people, in individuals. Because you don't know what's going to rise from the ruins. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I've never been an optimist. "

" I've never had a humble opinion. If you've got an opinion, why be humble about it? "

" Mostly what I listen to when I turn on my little iPod is opera. "

" My dread is for my show to be a nostalgia act. So the key to it is how do we keep it fresh? "

" Nonviolence is a flop. The only bigger flop is violence. "

" 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. "

" Someone had to change the world. And obviously I was the one for the job. "

" That's all nonviolence is - organized love. "

" The easiest kind of relationship for me is with ten thousand people. The hardest is with one. "

" The foundation of my beliefs is the same as it was when I was 10. Non-violence. "

" 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. "

" The only thing that's been a worse flop than the organization of non-violence has been the organization of violence. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" You may not know it, but at the far end of despair, there is a white clearing where one is almost happy. "

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