“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.” ThinkingKidsWantedDiesAnswersDealsAwfulVainPosing Author:Joan Baez
“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.” ThinkingBeliefFollowingSymbolsSixtyFollow Through Author:Joan Baez
“When I was 16, the guest speaker was King. And I was completely overwhelmed because I had been studying nonviolence, talking about it, reading about it, but here it was happening, here it was people boycotting the buses and people on the streets and taking risks, which I think was the key.” PeopleThinkingReadingTalkingStudyRiskStreetsKeysKingsHappeningsBusGuestsNonviolenceSpeakersOverwhelmedTaking Risks Author:Joan Baez
“Back then I was still listening to rhythm and blues, and my aunt took me to see a Pete Seeger concert. And it gelled. He made all the sense in the world to me. I got addicted to his albums, and then Belafonte and Odetta - they were the people who seemed to fuse things that were important to me into music. I think Pete the most because he did what he did to the point where he took those enormous risks and then paid for them.” PeopleThinkingWorldMadeStillsImportantRiskListeningPaidAlbumsEnormousRhythmConcertsAuntFuseRhythm And Blues Author:Joan Baez
“I think I would have had an easier time of it if I had had training much earlier. Because when I got to the training, it was in my late 30s and I already probably had every bad habit a singer could have. In fact, it still goes on. It's un-training those habits and retraining new ones - the breathing, the relaxation, the tongue, the lungs, the everything.” IfsThinkingStillsFactsGoes OnHabitEasierLateTrainingTongueSingersBreathingRelaxationLungsBad HabitsEasier Times Author:Joan Baez
“In this society, we don't like to face the future and the dying process and all of it. Most of us really don't want to think about it, but it's facing me in the mirror every day.” ThinkingWantFacesProcessDyingMirrorsThis Society Author:Joan Baez
“I was writing "Diamonds and Rust' and it had nothing to do with what it turned out to be. I don't remember what it is, but I think I was writing a song. It was literally interrupted by a phone call, and it just took another curve and it came out to be what it was.” ThinkingWritingRememberSongPhonesSongwritingDiamondCurvesPhone CallsInterruptedRust Author:Joan Baez
“Sometimes I think that it is enough to say that if we don't sit down and shut up once in a while we'll lose our minds even earlier than we had expected. Noise is an imposition on sanity, and we live in very noisy times.” IfsThinkingMindSometimesEnoughLosesDepressionDown AndIllnessExpectedMental IllnessNoiseSanityShut UpNoisyImposition Book:DAYBREAK Source: DAYBREAK
“I think music has the power to transform people, and in doing so, it has the power to transform situations - some large and some small.” PeopleThinkingSituation Author:Joan Baez
