Joan Baez
Joan Baez

Action is the antidote to despair.

Joan Baez
Joan Baez

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.

Joan Baez
Joan Baez

If it's natural to kill, how come men have to go into training to learn how?

Joan Baez
Joan Baez

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

Joan Baez
Joan Baez

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

Joan Baez
Joan Baez

I think music has the power to transform people, and in doing so, it has the power to transform situations - some large and some small.

Joan Baez
Joan Baez

Nonviolence is a flop. The only bigger flop is violence.

Joan Baez
Joan Baez

The easiest kind of relationship for me is with ten thousand people. The hardest is with one.

Joan Baez
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 pacifist, and the third to be folk singer.

Joan Baez
Joan Baez

That's all nonviolence is - organized love.

Joan Baez
Joan Baez

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

Joan Baez
Joan Baez

The longer you practice nonviolence and the meditative qualities of it that you will need, the more likely you are to do something intelligent in any situation.

Joan Baez
Joan Baez

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

Joan Baez
Joan Baez

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

Joan Baez
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 lot of people do and did. It was just an overnight kind of thing.

Joan Baez
Joan Baez

Someone had to change the world. And obviously I was the one for the job.

Joan Baez
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. That became my foundation with politics and my livelihood.

Joan Baez
Joan Baez

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

Joan Baez
Joan Baez

I've never been an optimist.

Joan Baez
Joan Baez

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