Joan Baez

That's all nonviolence is - organized love.

— Joan Baez

I've never been an optimist.

— Joan Baez

Action is the antidote to despair.

— Joan Baez

To love means you also trust.

— Joan Baez

I was trying to disturb the war.

— Joan Baez

As long as we keep searching, the answers come.

— Joan Baez

Peace might sell, but who's buying?

— Joan Baez

Hypothetical questions get hypothetical answers.

— Joan Baez

We both know what memories can bring / They bring diamonds and rust.

— Joan Baez

All of us are survivors, but how many of us transcend survival?

— Joan Baez

The hardest song to write is a protest song, a topical song with meaning.

— 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

I went to jail for 11 days for disturbing the peace; I was trying to disturb the war.

— Joan Baez

God must have something to do with joy ... and with sadness.

— 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

Sometimes I get lonesome for a storm. A fullblown storm where everything changes.

— Joan Baez

We were raised with that discussion about violence and non-violence, and we all pretty much came up on the side of non-violence.…

— Joan Baez

My father was a physicist and also an activist. My first public protest was with my dad at Stanford. I came by…

— 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

"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

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

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

My life is a crystal teardrop. There are snowflakes falling in the teardrop and little figures trudging in slow motion.

— Joan Baez

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

I never pretended to be rock star. I would make a lousy rock star. I don't have the right voice for it.…

— Joan Baez

There are good guys, and there are congressional people who are good guys, and I certainly vote in those elections. You know,…

— 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 was addicted to rhythm 'n' blues pretty much directly into folk music. I had my little 45s of mostly black artists.…

— 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

To sing is to love and affirm, to fly and to soar, to coast into the hearts of the people who listen…

— 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

There's very little I can sing now. When I asked my first voice teacher, who was the best one, "When will I…

— Joan Baez

To sing is to praise God and the daffodils, and to praise God is to thank Him, in every note within my…

— Joan Baez

The white music was melodic and pretty, and you had beautiful women's voices like Gogi Grant and even the Andrews Sisters. Then…

— Joan Baez

There is chaos. There's bloodshed. There's carnage.

— Joan Baez

The search is in the doing.

— Joan Baez

If you swing both ways, you really swing. I just figure you double your pleasure.

— Joan Baez

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

— Joan Baez

The foundation of my beliefs is the same as it was when I was 10. Non-violence.

— Joan Baez

Noise is an imposition on sanity, and we live in very noisy times.

— Joan Baez