Words matter. These are the best Joan Baez Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
Action is the antidote to despair.
Hypothetical questions get hypothetical answers.
I have hope in people, in individuals. Because you don’t know what’s going to rise from the ruins.
I spend a lot of time with Buddhists. I’m not a Buddhist, but their relationship with death interests me.
If it’s natural to kill, how come men have to go into training to learn how?
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.
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.
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.
I didn’t go through the routine of singing in small clubs and doing open mics and working so hard the way a lot of people do and did. It was just an overnight kind of thing.
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.
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.
My dread is for my show to be a nostalgia act. So the key to it is how do we keep it fresh?
The easiest kind of relationship for me is with ten thousand people. The hardest is with one.
The only thing that’s been a worse flop than the organization of non-violence has been the organization of violence.
I’ve never had a humble opinion. If you’ve got an opinion, why be humble about it?
Instead of getting hard ourselves and trying to compete, women should try and give their best qualities to men – bring them softness, teach them how to cry.
As we know, forgiveness of oneself is the hardest of all the forgivenesses.
Mostly what I listen to when I turn on my little iPod is opera.
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.
Nonviolence is a flop. The only bigger flop is violence.
I’ve never been an optimist.
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.
