Joan Baez

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

— Joan Baez

If you don't have music, you have silence. There is power in both.

— Joan Baez

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

Mostly what I listen to when I turn on my little iPod is opera.

— Joan Baez

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

As long as we keep searching, the answers come.

— Joan Baez

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

— Joan Baez

My dread is for my show to be a nostalgia act. So the key to it is how do we keep it…

— Joan Baez

We need to have faith in the people who are giving this movement direction to be smart enough to stay one step…

— Joan Baez

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

— Joan Baez

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

I've been obsessed with stopping people from blowing each other's brains out since I was ten.

— Joan Baez

In other words, it is what I do in the world that matters. When I traveled for three months in the Mideast,…

— Joan Baez

I'm not a rock and roller, a hitmaker. I'm highly dependent on what's coming out of these vocal cords.

— Joan Baez

As long as one keeps searching, the answers will come.

— Joan Baez

I have hope in people, in individuals. Because you don't know what's going to rise from the ruins.

— Joan Baez

Peace might sell, but who's buying?

— Joan Baez

During the 'ballad' years for me, the politics was latent; I was just falling in love with the ballads and my boyfriend.…

— Joan Baez

“You don't get to choose how you're going to die or when. But you can decide how you're going to live now”

— Joan Baez

If you're gonna sing meaningful songs, you have to be committed to living a life that backs that up.

— Joan Baez

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

I would say that I'm a nonviolent soldier. In place of weapons of violence, you have to use your mind, your heart,…

— Joan Baez

As we know, forgiveness of oneself is the hardest of all the forgivenesses.

— Joan Baez

Social change really cannot happen unless people are willing to take a risk, and they were. And I was so moved by…

— Joan Baez

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