Action is the antidote to despair.
Joan Baez

Hypothetical questions get hypothetical answers.
Joan Baez

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

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

It seems to me that those songs that have been any good, I have nothing much to do with the writing of them. The words have just crawled down my sleeve and come out on the page.
Joan Baez

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

That's all nonviolence is - organized love.
Joan Baez

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

The only thing that's been a worse flop than the organization of non-violence has been the organization of violence.
Joan Baez


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