No one knows what they’ll do in a moment of crisis and hypothetical questions get hypothetical answers.
—Joan Baez
Topics: Perspective
I’ve never had a humble opinion in my life. If you’re going to have one, why bother to be humble about it?
—Joan Baez
Topics: Opinion, Opinions
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
If it’s natural to kill, how come men have to go into training to learn how?
—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
Topics: Obedience
As long as one keeps searching, the answers come.
—Joan Baez
Topics: Resolve, Endurance, Perseverance
Nonviolence is a flop. The only bigger flop is violence.
—Joan Baez
Topics: Violence, Obedience
I have been true to the principles of nonviolence, developing a stronger and stronger aversion to the ideologies of both the far right and the far left and a deeper sense of rage and sorrow over the suffering they continue to produce all over the world.
—Joan Baez
Topics: Peace
The easiest kind of relationship is with ten thousand people, the hardest is with one.
—Joan Baez
Topics: Fame, Relationships
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
Topics: Words, Writing, Singing
Action is the antidote to despair.
—Joan Baez
Topics: Secrets of Success, Action, Despair
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