Joan Baez Quotes

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

Live, Die, Choose

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

Humble, Why, Opinion

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

War, Men, Training

Action is the antidote to despair.
Joan Baez

Action, Despair, Antidote

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

Same, Foundation, Beliefs

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

Violence, Bigger, Flop

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

Women, Men, Best

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

Good, Nothing, Writing

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

Human, Put, Second

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

Violence, Worse, Flop

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

Relationship, Ten, Thousand

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

Happy, End, May

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

Oneself, Hardest

Hypothetical questions get hypothetical answers.
Joan Baez

Questions, Answers

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

Change, Job, Someone

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

Love, Organized

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Nationality: American

Born: January 9, 1941

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