My life is a crystal teardrop. There are snowflakes falling in the teardrop and little figures trudging in slow motion. — Joan Baez Copy Share
Put tattoos all up and down our thighs, do anything our parents would despise. Take uppers, downers, blues, and reds and yellows, our brains… — Joan Baez Copy Share
If it came back I would be thrilled. I would be delighted to write more songs. I need them now because I want to… — Joan Baez Copy Share
There's a consensus out that it's OK to kill when your government decides who to kill. If you kill inside the country you get… — Joan Baez Copy Share
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… — Joan Baez Copy Share
It [my vocal] didn't sound like what I wanted to hear; the vibrato isn't what I liked anymore. So I got myself to an… — Joan Baez Copy Share
I see a young man playing 'Plaisir d'Amour' on guitar. I knew I didn't want to go to college; I was already playing a… — Joan Baez Copy Share
The only thing that's been a worse flop than the organization of nonviolence has been the organization of violence. — Joan Baez Copy Share
The point of nonviolence is to build a floor, a strong new floor, beneath which we can no longer sink. A platform which stands… — Joan Baez Copy Share
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… — Joan Baez Copy Share
That was sheer luck that it [being immersed into folk scene] happened when my voice began to develop. I don't know exactly what would… — Joan Baez Copy Share
