If it came back I would be thrilled. I would be delighted to write more songs. I need them now because I… — Joan Baez Copy Share Image
People say I'm such a pessimist, but I always was. It never stopped me from doing what I had to do. I… — Joan Baez Copy Share Image
I'd hear a tune in my head and the words would come. And then, very suddenly it just stopped. It seemed too… — Joan Baez Copy Share Image
When I was 16, the guest speaker was King. And I was completely overwhelmed because I had been studying nonviolence, talking about… — Joan Baez Copy Share Image
Some people don't even notice. "Oh, you sound exactly like you did!" And I say, "OK, if that's what you want to… — Joan Baez Copy Share Image
If people have to put labels on me, I'd prefer the first label to be human being, the second label to be… — Joan Baez Copy Share Image
I'm lucky to have met so many people who have been involved in peace and who have been peace prize winners. — Joan Baez Copy Share Image
Somebody else does the rigor and then I listen. I have an assistant, and my manager, and other people who hunt and… — Joan Baez Copy Share Image
There are good guys, and there are congressional people who are good guys, and I certainly vote in those elections. You know,… — Joan Baez Copy Share Image
I think music has the power to transform people, and in doing so, it has the power to transform situations - some… — Joan Baez Copy Share Image
The easiest kind of relationship for me is with ten thousand people. The hardest is with one. — Joan Baez Copy Share Image
I wasn't popular in school, I was Mexican, I was all these inappropriate things. I started playing the ukulele and taking it… — Joan Baez Copy Share Image
To sing is to love and affirm, to fly and to soar, to coast into the hearts of the people who listen… — Joan Baez Copy Share Image
Back then I was still listening to rhythm and blues, and my aunt took me to see a Pete Seeger concert. And… — Joan Baez Copy Share Image
We need to have faith in the people who are giving this movement direction to be smart enough to stay one step… — Joan Baez Copy Share Image
I didn't go through the routine of singing in small clubs and doing open mics and working so hard the way a… — Joan Baez Copy Share Image
I've been obsessed with stopping people from blowing each other's brains out since I was ten. — Joan Baez Copy Share Image
I have hope in people, in individuals. Because you don't know what's going to rise from the ruins. — Joan Baez Copy Share Image
Social change really cannot happen unless people are willing to take a risk, and they were. And I was so moved by… — Joan Baez Copy Share Image
I didn't study anything really. I didn't learn out of the books because I couldn't read music very well, so it is… — Joan Baez Copy Share Image
My life is a crystal teardrop. There are snowflakes falling in the teardrop and little figures trudging in slow motion. — Joan Baez Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
The only thing that's been a worse flop than the organization of nonviolence has been the organization of violence. — Joan Baez Copy Share Image
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 Image