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

Someone had to change the world. And obviously I was the one for the job. — Joan Baez

As we know, forgiveness of oneself is the hardest of all the forgivenesses. — Joan Baez

We need to have faith in the people who are giving this movement direction to be smart enough to stay one step ahead of what's coming up next. — Joan Baez

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

I mean, I would love to have the career Joan Baez is having in Europe right now, but God knows I don't begrudge her that career. — Janis Ian

God must have something to do with joy ... and with sadness. — Joan Baez

Action is the antidote to despair. — Joan Baez

As long as we keep searching, the answers come. — Joan Baez

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

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

Joan Mitchell, Joan Baez, Judy Collins - that was my mom's era. — Cheyenne Jackson

We must sit on the rim
of the well of darkness
and fish for fallen light
with patience.
--Pablo Neruda — Wendy Brown-Baez

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. — Joan Baez

We're not really pacifists, we're nonviolent soldiers. — Joan Baez

I was trying to disturb the war. — Joan Baez

As long as one keeps searching, the answers will come. — Joan Baez

If you swing both ways, you really swing. I just figure you double your pleasure. — Joan Baez

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

We both know what memories can bring / They bring diamonds and rust. — Joan Baez

Why speculate when you can calculate? — John C. Baez

I spend a lot of time with Buddhists. I'm not a Buddhist, but their relationship with death interests me. — 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. — Joan Baez

When somebody says to me-which they do like every 5 years- "How does it feel to be over the hill?" my response is, "I'm just heading up the mountain." — John C. Baez

Commutative algebra is a lot like topology, only backwards. — John C. Baez

Noise is an imposition on sanity, and we live in very noisy times. — Joan Baez

If you don't have music, you have silence. There is power in both. — Joan Baez

The search is in the doing. — Joan Baez

The point on nonviolence is to build a floor, a strong new floor, beneath which we can no longer sink. — Joan Baez

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

There is chaos. There's bloodshed. There's carnage. — Joan Baez

I went to jail for 11 days for disturbing the peace; I was trying to disturb the war. — Joan Baez

Living so fully, I can't imagine what any drug could do for me. — Joan Baez

All of us are survivors, but how many of us transcend survival? — Joan Baez

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

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

Any effect, constant, theorem or equation named after Professor X was first discovered by Professor Y , for some value of Y not equal to X. — John C. Baez

To love means you also trust. — Joan Baez

Some people don't even notice. "Oh, you sound exactly like you did!" And I say, "OK, if that's what you want to believe, that's fine." — Joan Baez

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. — Joan Baez

Peace might sell, but who's buying? — Joan Baez

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. — Joan Baez

Mostly what I listen to when I turn on my little iPod is opera. — Joan Baez

The easiest kind of relationship for me is with ten thousand people. The hardest is with one. — Joan Baez

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

That's all nonviolence is - organized love. — Joan Baez

It's better to work with a nice category containing some nasty objects, than a nasty category containing only nice objects. — John C. Baez

I don't think of myself as a symbol of the sixties, but I do think of myself as a symbol of following through on your beliefs. — Joan Baez

Oy vey, these guys is New York's spineless
Strangled and denied it for Anthony Baez — Himanshu Suri

I've never been an optimist. — Joan Baez

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. — Joan Baez

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

Nonviolence is a flop. The only bigger flop is violence. — Joan Baez

The hardest song to write is a protest song, a topical song with meaning. — Joan Baez

I'm lucky to have met so many people who have been involved in peace and who have been peace prize winners. — Joan Baez

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