Quotes by Joan Baez (born January 9, 1941)

Joan Baez Quotes

- Action is the antidote to despair.

- Hypothetical questions get hypothetical answers.

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

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

- 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.

- 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.

- Nonviolence is a flop. The only bigger flop is violence.

- That's all nonviolence is - organized love.

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

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

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

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

- The easiest kind of relationship is with ten thousand people, the hardest is with one.

- Action is the antidote to despair.

- 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.

- As long as one keeps searching, the answers come

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

- That's all nonviolence is - organized love.

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

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

- 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

- Hypothetical questions get hypothetical answers.

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

- 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 wor

- The point on nonviolence is to build a floor, a strong new floor, beneath which we can no longer sink.

- 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.

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

- Dark Chords on a Big Guitar.

- Nonviolence is a flop. The only bigger flop is violence.

- I realized after the first two hours, I had been smiling the whole time, ... It was a motherly smile, but also appreciation for a documentary really well made. Bob revealed more than I think anyone really expected him to. I think Scorsese gets some five stars for that. He done good.

- It's All Over Now

- You can even hear me go flat in places, ... It's all over that recording. The audience was in a dark depression. We didn't even include all of their responses, as you might imagine.

- I felt very definitely about Crawford, that, whether or not people actually stayed with it, a spark had been lit,

- People always ask me,

- Good morning, children of the 80s. This is your Woodstock, and it's long overdue.

- [Before the concert, Baez said a movement like this was waiting to happen.] It was the final tear for the overflow and you can't stop running water, ... Cindy's was the final tear.

- It was the final tear for the overflow and you can't stop running water. Cindy's was the final tear.

- I generally like to get to the point.

- I've never had a humble opinion in my life. If you're going to have one, why bother to be humble about it?

- In the first march I went to there were 10 of us. This is huge.

- Swing Low, Sweet Chariot.

- You know in the first march I went on against the war in Vietnam there were 10 of us,

- 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,

- If I can do anything, sing a song, talk, listen, I'm here,

- I think Cindy and the women have impeccable credentials -- no matter how hard people try to slander and assassinate their personalities, it is impeccable credentials. I think they simply can't be not listened to.

- free of any major label associations in the United States.

- I know that the Camp Casey movement is going to end the war in Iraq,

- I was going to say thank you for inviting me but I already had my plane ticket.

- Bowery Songs,

- Starving-artist stints

- Dylan made it pretty clear he didn't want to do all that other stuff,

- There is chaos. There's bloodshed. There's carnage.
My concern has always been for the people who are victimized, unable to speak for themselves and who need outside help.
Action is the antidote to despair.

- All serious daring starts from within.

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

- 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.

- 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.

- Hypothetical questions get hypothetical answers.

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

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

- Good morning, children of the 80s. This is your Woodstock, and it's long overdue. at the Philadelphia Live Aid concert

- As long as one keeps searching, the answers come.

- To love means you also trust.

- The easiest kind of relationship is with ten thousand people, the hardest is with one.

- Only you and I can help the sun rise each coming morning. If we don't, it may drench itself out in sorrow.

- You don't get to choose how you're going to die. Or when. You can decide how you're going to live now.