I’d hear a tune in my head and the words would come. And then, very suddenly it just stopped. It seemed too stilted to try and learn how to write a song, to go to round robins and to learn things from other people on how to write a song. So I just stopped and did other things.

— Joan Baez

Joan Baez Quotes

The only thing that’s been a worse flop than the organization of nonviolence has been the organization of violence.

— Joan Baez

If you’re gonna sing meaningful songs, you have to be committed to living a life that backs that up.

— Joan Baez

Peace might sell, but who’s buying?

— Joan Baez

Mostly what I listen to when I turn on my little iPod is opera.

— Joan Baez

I’m lucky to have met so many people who have been involved in peace and who have been peace prize winners.

— Joan Baez

Hypothetical questions get hypothetical answers.

— Joan Baez

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

— Joan Baez

The search is in the doing.

— Joan Baez

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

There is chaos. There’s bloodshed. There’s carnage.

— Joan Baez

Sometimes I get lonesome for a storm. A fullblown storm where everything changes.

— Joan Baez

Now I know I understand that it was Sgt. Pepper’s Band, that put the sixties into song, where have all the heroes gone?

— Joan Baez

Put tattoos all up and down our thighs, do anything our parents would despise. Take uppers, downers, blues, and reds and yellows, our brains are turning into jello.

— Joan Baez

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

— Joan Baez

And my voice now is a struggle, it’s a daily struggle to keep it up. Gravity has begun to fight the vocal cords the way it does with everybody. So I have a vocal therapist, and we record the sessions and I use them on tour every day.

— Joan Baez

Somebody else does the rigor and then I listen. I have an assistant, and my manager, and other people who hunt and find and send it to me, and then I just figure out which ones I can do justice to.

— Joan Baez

If it came back I would be thrilled. I would be delighted to write more songs. I need them now because I want to make an album and I have to depend on other people’s music, which I’ve done for years. But still, it’d be really nice to be able to sprinkle it with my own.

— Joan Baez

I’d hear a tune in my head and the words would come. And then, very suddenly it just stopped. It seemed too stilted to try and learn how to write a song, to go to round robins and to learn things from other people on how to write a song. So I just stopped and did other things.

— Joan Baez

Some people don’t even notice. “Oh, you sound exactly like you did!” And I say, “OK, if that’s what you want to believe, that’s fine.”

— Joan Baez

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.

— Joan Baez
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