American - Musician | January 9, 1941 -
If it's natural to kill, how come men have to go into training to learn how?
Joan Baez
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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.
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I've never been an optimist.
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I see a young man playing 'Plaisir d'Amour' on guitar. I knew I didn't want to go to college; I was already playing a ukulele, and after I saw that, I was hooked. All I wanted to do was play guitar and sing.
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My father was a physicist and also an activist. My first public protest was with my dad at Stanford. I came by all that honestly.
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I spend a lot of time with Buddhists. I'm not a Buddhist, but their relationship with death interests me.
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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.
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