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I saw the people gather/I heard the music start/The song that they were singing/Is ringing in my heart

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More quotes by Joan Baez

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

Daybreak (1968)

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.

Daybreak (1968)

When the sun sinks in the west
Die a million people of the Bangladesh.

Bangladesh, Bangladesh
When the sun sinks in the west
Die a million people of the Bangladesh

in the Song for Bangladesh (1971)

Blessed are the persecuted
And blessed are the pure in heart
Blessed are the merciful
And blessed are the ones who mourn

Sacco e Vanzetti (1971)

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The emphasis of study upon a particular aspect of music is in itself ideological because it contains implications about the music's value.

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Music is well said to be the speech of angels.

Thomas Carlyle Critical and Miscellaneous Essays (1827)

Music has no subject beyond the combinations of notes we hear, for music speaks not only by means of sounds, it speaks nothing but sound.

Eduard Hanslick

Above the pitch, out of tune, and off the hinges.

François Rabelais Gargantua and Pantagruel (1532)

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