Joan Baez Quotes About Songs

Quotes about: Songs

• If you're gonna sing meaningful songs, you have to be committed to living a life that backs that up.

  Joan Baez

  Music, Meaningful, Song

• 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.

  Joan Baez

  Music, Song, Memorable

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

• 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.

  Joan Baez

  Song, Writing, Thinking

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

  Joan Baez

  Song, Hero, Sgt Pepper

  Song: Sgt. Pepper's Band

• If it came back I would be thrilled. I would be delighted to write more songs. I need them now because I want to make an album and I have to depend on other people's music, which I've done for years. But still, it'd be really nice to be able to sprinkle it with my own.

  Joan Baez

  Song, Nice, Writing

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

• I love the lower ranges of my new voice. I really enjoy that. It's a challenge, and I accept the challenge. I sort of enjoy it now to reach notes that maybe four years ago I couldn't reach. I don't mean to grumble about it. I'm past that critical period and have gone on to a whole new field. And we go everywhere. We travel around the world, and I learn songs from every place we go, and it's a joyful process.

  Joan Baez

  Song, Mean, Past

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

• 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.

  Joan Baez

  Song, Sound, Littles

  Source: www.azcentral.com

• I wasn't popular in school, I was Mexican, I was all these inappropriate things. I started playing the ukulele and taking it to school, and I realized people liked listening to it. I would play it to comfort myself at home, and I'd play rhythm and blues songs that had four chords. That's how it started.

  Joan Baez

  Song, Home, School

  Source: www.azcentral.com

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

  Joan Baez

  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.

• "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.

  Joan Baez

  Song, Writing, Trying

  Source: www.chicagotribune.com

• 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.

  Joan Baez

  Song, Falling In Love, Years

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

• "Nasty Man" isn't a laughing matter, but you have to laugh anyway. The song, itself, becomes something of a laughing matter because we'd go crazy if we didn't keep laughing.

  Joan Baez

  Song, Crazy, Men

  "Joan Baez finds her seat among quartet of greats". Interview with Chrissie Dickinson, digitaledition.chicagotribune.com.

• I wish it was clear for me how it happened [stop writing songs], then maybe I could start writing again. But it's kind of an "it." It just submerged itself. Because the way I had always written was just that it came out. It just happened.

  Joan Baez

  Song, Writing, Wish

  Source: www.chicagotribune.com

• I'd hear a tune in my head and the words would come. And then, very suddenly it just stopped. It seemed too stilted to try and learn how to write a song, to go to round robins and to learn things from other people on how to write a song. So I just stopped and did other things.

  Joan Baez

  Song, Writing, 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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