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
I tried to figure him out and gave up a long time ago.
I thought it was monumentally well run and I had a marvelous time playing it.
In the first march I went to there were 10 of us. This is huge.
You don't get to choose how you are going to die or when. You can only decide how you're going to live.
I didn't go through the routine of singing in small clubs and doing open mics and working so hard the way a lot of people do and did. It was just an overnight kind of thing.
The easiest kind of relationship is with ten thousand people, the hardest is with one.
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.
I was going to say thank you for inviting me but I already had my plane ticket.
If I can do anything, sing a song, talk, listen, I'm here,
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've never had a humble opinion. If you've got an opinion, why be humble about it?
Nonviolence is a flop. The only bigger flop is violence.
As long as one keeps searching, the answers will come.
We're not really pacifists, we're nonviolent soldiers.