I think I would have had an easier time of it if I had had training much earlier. Because when I got… — Joan Baez Copy Share Image
In this society, we don't like to face the future and the dying process and all of it. Most of us really… — 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
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
Sometimes I think that it is enough to say that if we don't sit down and shut up once in a while… — 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
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
I think the question that nobody wanted to deal with is the question they're posing: did my kid die in vain? Because… — Joan Baez Copy Share Image
I don't think of myself as a symbol of the sixties, but I do think of myself as a symbol of following… — 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