Joan Baez

Action is the antidote to despair.

All serious daring starts from within.

As long as one keeps searching, the answers come.

Hypothetical questions get hypothetical answers.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

To love means you also trust.

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

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

Profile / Biography:

^{Joan Baez was born in New York, on January 9th 1941, and has Mexican, English and Scottish ancestors. Her father was a famous physicist and received prestigious positions around the world; Consequently, Joan Baez was exposed to many different cultures, as she lived in Europe, and the Middle East.}

^{In the mid 1950, her father accepted a post at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). She attended the Boston University, started her career in 1959 by singing in clubs, and recorded her first album with other singers. In 1960, she recorded another album titles Joan Baez with the Vanguard studios. Her third album Joan Baez, Vol 2 sold over a million copies.}

^{Joan Baez is also known for her activism and her protest against the Vietnam War. In 1967, she was arrested and send to jail for protesting against it. In 1972, she went to Vietnam as a part of a peace envoy. She founded Humanitas International to free people from oppressive regime.}

^{She continued to release album after album and participated in movement to integrate gay and lesbian. She gave many concerts to help many organizations with their causes such as Amnesty International in 1986. She performed at a rally against the invasion of Iraq in 2003.}

^{She is still singing today and supports many causes including the victims of Hurricane Katrina and Human Rights Organizations.}