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Joan Baez

Joan Chandos Baez (born January 9, 1941 in Staten Island, New York) is an American folk singer and songwriter known for her highly individual vocal style. Many of her songs are topical and deal with social issues

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

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

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

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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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Hypothetical questions get hypothetical answers.

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As long as one keeps searching, the answers come.

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Action is the antidote to despair.

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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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