Joan Baez Quotes (31 Quotes)

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

As long as one keeps searching, the answers come.

That's all nonviolence is - organized love.

Nonviolence is a flop. The only bigger flop is violence.

I have been true to the principles of nonviolence, developing a stronger and stronger aversion to the ideologies of both the far right and the far left and a deeper sense of rage and sorrow over the suffering they continue to produce all over the wor

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

Dylan made it pretty clear he didn't want to do all that other stuff,

I know that the Camp Casey movement is going to end the war in Iraq,

You can even hear me go flat in places, ... It's all over that recording. The audience was in a dark depression. We didn't even include all of their responses, as you might imagine.

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

I think Cindy and the women have impeccable credentials -- no matter how hard people try to slander and assassinate their personalities, it is impeccable credentials. I think they simply can't be not listened to.

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

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.

Good morning, children of the 80s. This is your Woodstock, and it's long overdue.

You don't get to choose how you are going to die or when. You can only decide how you're going to live.

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.

Only you and I can help the sun rise each coming morning. If we don't, it may drench itself out in sorrow.

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.

Before the concert, Baez said a movement like this was waiting to happen. It was the final tear for the overflow and you can't stop running water, ... Cindy's was the final tear.

I've never had a humble opinion in my life. If you're going to have one, why bother to be humble about it.

If I can do anything, sing a song, talk, listen, I'm here,

Action is the antidote to despair.

I tried to figure him out and gave up a long time ago.

If we dont sit down and shut up once in a while well lose our minds even earlier than we had expected. Noise is an imposition on sanity, and we live in very noisy times.

Hypothetical questions get hypothetical answers.

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

I realized after the first two hours, I had been smiling the whole time, ... It was a motherly smile, but also appreciation for a documentary really well made. Bob revealed more than I think anyone really expected him to. I think Scorsese gets some five stars for that. He done good.

I thought it was monumentally well run and I had a marvelous time playing it.

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,

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

It took many, many years to get to this point in Vietnam.