Joan Baez quotes

As we know, forgiveness of oneself is the hardest of all the forgivenesses.
- Joan Baez

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.
- Joan Baez

I would say that I'm a nonviolent soldier. In place of weapons of violence, you have to use your mind, your heart, your sense of humor, every faculty available to you...because no one has the right to take the life of another human being.
- Joan Baez

Action is the antidote to despair.
- Joan Baez

I went to jail for 11 days for disturbing the peace; I was trying to disturb the war.
- Joan Baez

I think music has the power to transform people, and in doing so, it has the power to transform situations - some large and some small.
- Joan Baez

If you don't have music, you have silence. There is power in both.
- Joan Baez

As long as one keeps searching, the answers will come.
- Joan Baez

I have hope in people, in individuals. Because you don't know what's going to rise from the ruins.
- Joan Baez

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

If you're gonna sing meaningful songs, you have to be committed to living a life that backs that up.
- Joan Baez

The easiest kind of relationship for me is with ten thousand people. The hardest is with one.
- Joan Baez

Someone had to change the world. And obviously I was the one for the job.
- Joan Baez

Sometimes I think that it is enough to say that 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.
- Joan Baez

Only you and I can help the sun rise each coming morning. If we don't, it may drench itself out in sorrow.
- Joan Baez

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

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

We're not really pacifists, we're nonviolent soldiers.
- Joan Baez

If people have to put labels on me, I'd prefer the first label to be human being, the second label to be pacifist, and the third to be folk singer.
- Joan Baez

Noise is an imposition on sanity, and we live in very noisy times.
- Joan Baez

There's a consensus out that it's OK to kill when your government decides who to kill. If you kill inside the country you get in trouble. If you kill outside the country, right time, right season, latest enemy, you get a medal.
- Joan Baez