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
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
It sounds corny, but it's absolutely true: A song chooses me. I don't go looking for a certain kind of lyric. It… — Joan Baez Copy Share Image
"Diamonds & Rust" started off as another song. Then the words started to morph. When you write a song that deep, the… — Joan Baez Copy Share Image
The hardest song to write is a protest song, a topical song with meaning. — Joan Baez Copy Share Image
"Nasty Man" isn't a laughing matter, but you have to laugh anyway. The song, itself, becomes something of a laughing matter because… — Joan Baez Copy Share Image
I wish it was clear for me how it happened [stop writing songs], then maybe I could start writing again. But it's… — Joan Baez Copy Share Image
I love the lower ranges of my new voice. I really enjoy that. It's a challenge, and I accept the challenge. I… — Joan Baez Copy Share Image
Now I know I understand that it was Sgt. Pepper's Band, that put the sixties into song, where have all the heroes… — 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
It seems to me that those songs that have been any good, I have nothing much to do with the writing of… — Joan Baez Copy Share Image
I was writing "Diamonds and Rust' and it had nothing to do with what it turned out to be. I don't remember… — Joan Baez Copy Share Image
During the 'ballad' years for me, the politics was latent; I was just falling in love with the ballads and my boyfriend.… — Joan Baez Copy Share Image
If you're gonna sing meaningful songs, you have to be committed to living a life that backs that up. — 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
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