Joan Baez
Joan Baez
Joan Baezis an American folk singer, songwriter, musician, and activist whose contemporary folk music often includes songs of protest or social justice. Baez has performed publicly for over 55 years, releasing over 30 albums. Fluent in Spanish as well as in English, she has also recorded songs in at least six other languages. She is regarded as a folk singer, although her music has diversified since the counterculture days of the 1960s and now encompasses everything from folk rock and...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionMusician
Date of Birth9 January 1941
CountryUnited States of America
We're not really pacifists, we're nonviolent soldiers.
Living so fully, I can't imagine what any drug could do for me.
If you swing both ways, you really swing. I just figure you double your pleasure.
We were raised with that discussion about violence and non-violence, and we all pretty much came up on the side of non-violence. That became my foundation with politics and my livelihood.
All of us are survivors, but how many of us transcend survival?
Noise is an imposition on sanity, and we live in very noisy times.
Mostly what I listen to when I turn on my little iPod is opera.
Hypothetical questions get hypothetical answers.
As we know, forgiveness of oneself is the hardest of all the forgivenesses.
There is chaos. There's bloodshed. There's carnage.
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.
God must have something to do with joy ... and with sadness.
The search is in the doing.
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.