Joan Baez Quotes - Page 3

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• I've been obsessed with stopping people from blowing each other's brains out since I was ten.

  Joan Baez

  People, Brain, Stopping

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

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  Peace, Organization, Violence

  Daybreak (1968)

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• The hardest song to write is a protest song, a topical song with meaning.

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  Song, Writing, Protest

  "Joan Baez on the new protest era: The whole world's watching". Interview with Greg Kot, articles.chicagotribune.com. October 26, 2011.

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• I was addicted to rhythm 'n' blues pretty much directly into folk music. I had my little 45s of mostly black artists. That was as close as I got. I've never listened to heavy rock or stuff that jangles my nerves, because I'm already jangled.

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  Artist, Black, Rhythm

  "Joan Baez, rock star? Believe it". Interview with James Reed, www.latimes.com. April 27, 2017.

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• When I was 16, the guest speaker was King. And I was completely overwhelmed because I had been studying nonviolence, talking about it, reading about it, but here it was happening, here it was people boycotting the buses and people on the streets and taking risks, which I think was the key.

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  Kings, Reading, Thinking

  "Q&A with Joan Baez: Even Taylor Swift thinks she's cool". Interview with Roger Catlin, www.washingtonpost.com. March 4, 2016.

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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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  Music, Song, Memorable

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Seeing you sleeping peacefully on your back among your stuffed ducks, bears and basset hounds, would remind me that no matter how good the next day might be, certain moments were gone forever because we could not go backwards in time.

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  Children, Sleep, Next Day

  Joan Baez (2012). “And A Voice to Sing With: A Memoir”, p.160, Simon and Schuster

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• I was writing "Diamonds and Rust' and it had nothing to do with what it turned out to be. I don't remember what it is, but I think I was writing a song. It was literally interrupted by a phone call, and it just took another curve and it came out to be what it was.

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  Song, Writing, Thinking

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• Back then I was still listening to rhythm and blues, and my aunt took me to see a Pete Seeger concert. And it gelled. He made all the sense in the world to me. I got addicted to his albums, and then Belafonte and Odetta - they were the people who seemed to fuse things that were important to me into music. I think Pete the most because he did what he did to the point where he took those enormous risks and then paid for them.

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  Thinking, Aunt, People

  "Q&A with Joan Baez: Even Taylor Swift thinks she's cool". Interview with Roger Catlin, www.washingtonpost.com. March 4, 2016.

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• My life is a crystal teardrop. There are snowflakes falling in the teardrop and little figures trudging in slow motion.

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  Life, Fall, Littles

  Joan Baez (1968). “DAYBREAK”

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• The white music was melodic and pretty, and you had beautiful women's voices like Gogi Grant and even the Andrews Sisters. Then I went directly to rhythm and blues, which had beautiful voices but not much melody in particular and pretty much the same chord pattern. I loved it, I was entrenched in it, but then folk music came in the middle of that for me, and made its own path. And it was part of the rebellion against bubblegum music, or music that is pretty but doesn't say anything.

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  Beautiful, Voice, White

  Source: www.azcentral.com

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• I think the question that nobody wanted to deal with is the question they're posing: did my kid die in vain? Because the answer is too awful.

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  Kids, Thinking, Answers

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• "Diamonds & Rust" started off as another song. Then the words started to morph. When you write a song that deep, the words come from some place else. But when the songs stop coming, it would be so contrived to try and force it. Since then I've just been doing other people's music.

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  Song, Writing, Trying

  Source: www.chicagotribune.com

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• In other words, it is what I do in the world that matters. When I traveled for three months in the Mideast, the places I wanted to go back to were Turkey and the Gaza Strip. It has to do with what Gandhi said: he found God in the eyes of the poor. Those are the places which were so moving that they were just unbearable.

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  Moving, Eye, Turkeys

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• Put tattoos all up and down our thighs, do anything our parents would despise. Take uppers, downers, blues, and reds and yellows, our brains are turning into jello.

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  Tattoo, Reality, Parent

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• 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.

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  People, Realist, Pessimist

  "Joan Baez on the new protest era: The whole world's watching". Interview with Greg Kot, articles.chicagotribune.com. October 26, 2011.

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• We both know what memories can bring / They bring diamonds and rust.

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  Memories, Expression, Rust

  "Diamonds and Rust" (song) (1975)

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• It sounds corny, but it's absolutely true: A song chooses me. I don't go looking for a certain kind of lyric. It kind of develops its own little arc and I'll just see what happens.

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  Song, Sound, Littles

  Source: www.azcentral.com

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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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  Foundation, Violence, Sides

  "How Sweet The Sound: An Interview With Joan Baez". Interview with Mike Ragogna, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 18, 2010.

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• There's very little I can sing now. When I asked my first voice teacher, who was the best one, "When will I know when to stop singing?" he said, "Your voice will tell you." And it is very, very difficult to sing now.

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  Teacher, Singing, Difficult

  "Joan Baez, rock star? Believe it". Interview with James Reed, www.latimes.com. April 27, 2017.

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• Now I know I understand that it was Sgt. Pepper's Band, that put the sixties into song, where have all the heroes gone?

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  Song, Hero, Sgt Pepper

  Song: Sgt. Pepper's Band

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• I didn't study anything really. I didn't learn out of the books because I couldn't read music very well, so it is what they say it is - you learn from other people. And my cohorts and I would sneak around the coffee shops and hear stuff we wanted to learn, and then you ask whoever was playing it to teach you.

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  Coffee, Book, People

  "Q&A with Joan Baez: Even Taylor Swift thinks she's cool". Interview with Roger Catlin, www.washingtonpost.com. March 4, 2016.

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• There is chaos. There's bloodshed. There's carnage.

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  Chaos, Bloodshed, Carnage

  "Thousands Protest Iraq War", www.foxnews.com. September 24, 2005.

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• Somebody else does the rigor and then I listen. I have an assistant, and my manager, and other people who hunt and find and send it to me, and then I just figure out which ones I can do justice to.

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  People, Justice, Assistants

  "Q&A with Joan Baez: Even Taylor Swift thinks she's cool". Interview with Roger Catlin, www.washingtonpost.com. March 4, 2016.

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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.

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  People, Lucky, Winner

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