American - Musician | January 9, 1941 -
Action is the antidote to despair.
Joan Baez
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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.
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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.
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As we know, forgiveness of oneself is the hardest of all the forgivenesses.
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I have hope in people, in individuals. Because you don't know what's going to rise from the ruins.
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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.
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Someone had to change the world. And obviously I was the one for the job.
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Hypothetical questions get hypothetical answers.
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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.
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You may not know it, but at the far end of despair, there is a white clearing where one is almost happy.
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The hardest song to write is a protest song, a topical song with meaning.
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The easiest kind of relationship for me is with ten thousand people. The hardest is with one.
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