God must have something to do with joy … and with sadness.
JOAN BAEZThere’s very little I can sing now. When I asked my first voice teacher, who was the best one, “When will I know when to stop singing?” he said, “Your voice will tell you.” And it is very, very difficult to sing now.
More Joan Baez Quotes
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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 have hope in people, in individuals. Because you don’t know what’s going to rise from the ruins.
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Seeing you sleeping peacefully on your back among your stuffed ducks, bears and basset hounds, would remind me that no matter how good the next day might be, certain moments were gone forever because we could not go backwards in time.
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Now I know I understand that it was Sgt. Pepper’s Band, that put the sixties into song, where have all the heroes gone?
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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.
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We need to have faith in the people who are giving this movement direction to be smart enough to stay one step ahead of what’s coming up next.
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If you don’t have music, you have silence. There is power in both.
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I don’t think of myself as a symbol of the sixties, but I do think of myself as a symbol of following through on your beliefs.
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“Nasty Man” isn’t a laughing matter, but you have to laugh anyway. The song, itself, becomes something of a laughing matter because we’d go crazy if we didn’t keep laughing.
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I have heard more than once, ‘Shut up and sing!’ and I get it now.
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There’s very little I can sing now. When I asked my first voice teacher, who was the best one, “When will I know when to stop singing?” he said, “Your voice will tell you.” And it is very, very difficult to sing now.
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I think the question that nobody wanted to deal with is the question they’re posing: did my kid die in vain? Because the answer is too awful.
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