Joan Baez Quotes

During the 'ballad' years for me, the politics was latent; I was just falling in love with the ballads and my boyfriend. And there was the beauty of the songs.

Some people don't even notice. "Oh, you sound exactly like you did!" And I say, "OK, if that's what you want to believe, that's fine."

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

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

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 I'm a realist.

We need to have faith in the people who are giving this movement direction to be smart enough to stay one step ahead of what's coming up next.

Now I know I understand that it was Sgt. Pepper's Band, that put the sixties into song, where have all the heroes gone?

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

It sounds corny, but it's absolutely true: A song chooses me. I don't go looking for a certain kind of lyric. It kind of develops its own little arc and I'll just see what happens.

Living so fully, I can't imagine what any drug could do for me.

I am so disconnected from the world of rock 'n' roll. I was always peripheral, partly because of the drug culture. I was not involved in that.

In this society, we don't like to face the future and the dying process and all of it. Most of us really don't want to think about it, but it's facing me in the mirror every day.

The search is in the doing.

I spend a lot of time with Buddhists. I'm not a Buddhist, but their relationship with death interests me.

I've never had a humble opinion in my life. If you're going to have one why bother to be humble about it?

You don't get to choose how you're going to die. Or when. You can only decide how you're going to live.

As long as one keeps searching the answers come.

The easiest kind of relationship for me is with 10 000 people. The hardest is with one.

Instead of getting hard ourselves and trying to compete women should try to give their best qualities to men- bring them softness teach them how to cry.

You don't get to choose how you're going to die. Or when. You can only decide how you're going to live. Now.

The only thing that’s been a worse flop than the organization of nonviolence has been the organization of violence.