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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
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
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
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
I was trying to disturb the war.
— Joan Baez
I have hope in people, in individuals. Because you don't know what's going to rise from the ruins.
— 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
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
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
The easiest kind of relationship for me is with ten thousand people. The hardest is with one.
— 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
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