Joan Baez Quotes

born 1941 United States

Joan Chandos Báez (born 9 January 1941) is an American folk singer and songwriter, known for her distinctive vocal style as well as her outspoken political views.

United States
Activists
Environmentalists
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Singer-songwriters

Also known as: Baez, Joan

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All of us alive are survivors, but how many of us transcend survival? (p. 322)

And a Voice to Sing With (1989)

(If you could speak to your younger self, what would you tell her?) Take it easy. Take a break. Relax a little.

Interview (2023)

We are the warriors of the sun
The golden boys and the golden girls
For a better world

Children of the 80's (1980)

Here's to you, Nicola and Bart
Rest forever here in our hearts
The last and final moment is yours
That agony is your triumph

Sacco e Vanzetti (1971)

I’ve never taken much time to do nothing, which I think is pretty important, especially at my age, and sort of contemplating what is coming. In this culture, we spend most of our time trying to avoid it. I would like to have more of a Buddhist approach.

Interview (2019)

Seeing that nothing could come of our presence in Vietnam except disaster, I had a quiet revelation and decided to refuse to pay my military taxes.

And a Voice to Sing With (1989)

Some of us may offer a surprise
Recently have you looked in our eyes
Maybe we're your conscience in disguise

Children of the 80's (1980)

Perhaps he's just a vehicle
To bear us to the hills of Truth
That's Truth spelled with a great big T
And peddled in the mystic's booth
There are oh so many miracles
That the western sky exposes
Why go looking for lilacs
When you're lying in a bed of roses?

Gulf Winds (1976)

Miracles bowl me over
And often will they do so
Now I think I was asleep till I heard
The voice of the great Caruso Bring infinity home
Let me embrace it one more time
Make it the lilies of the field
Or Caruso in his prime

Gulf Winds (1976)

It seemed a miracle that I would meet, and have the blessing to know and work with, one of the two saints of the phenomenon which had won my heart when I was barely sixteen years old: the concept of radical nonviolence, introduced to the world as a revolutionary political tool by Mahatma Gandhi in India, and reintroduced now by Martin Luther King, Jr., in the United States of America.

And a Voice to Sing With (1989)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Joan Baez (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.