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 More Quotes by Joan Baez More Quotes From Joan Baez I'm a badass. I really am. When you see me hanging with Snoop Doggy Dogg, I am perfectly at home and comfortable. Joan Baez badass home In this society, we don't like to face the future and the dying process and all of it. Most of us really don't want to think about it, but it's facing me in the mirror every day. Joan Baez mirrors dying thinking I wasn't popular in school, I was Mexican, I was all these inappropriate things. I started playing the ukulele and taking it to school, and I realized people liked listening to it. I would play it to comfort myself at home, and I'd play rhythm and blues songs that had four chords. That's how it started. Joan Baez home song school In other words, it is what I do in the world that matters. When I traveled for three months in the Mideast, the places I wanted to go back to were Turkey and the Gaza Strip. It has to do with what Gandhi said: he found God in the eyes of the poor. Those are the places which were so moving that they were just unbearable. Joan Baez turkeys eye moving I love the lower ranges of my new voice. I really enjoy that. It's a challenge, and I accept the challenge. I sort of enjoy it now to reach notes that maybe four years ago I couldn't reach. I don't mean to grumble about it. I'm past that critical period and have gone on to a whole new field. And we go everywhere. We travel around the world, and I learn songs from every place we go, and it's a joyful process. Joan Baez song mean past If you swing both ways, you really swing. I just figure you double your pleasure. Joan Baez swings pleasure way Peace might sell, but who's buying? Joan Baez sells buying might We both know what memories can bring / They bring diamonds and rust. Joan Baez rust expression memories There is chaos. There's bloodshed. There's carnage. Joan Baez carnage bloodshed chaos I was trying to disturb the war. Joan Baez trying war Now I know I understand that it was Sgt. Pepper's Band, that put the sixties into song, where have all the heroes gone? Joan Baez sgt-pepper hero song The foundation of my beliefs is the same as it was when I was 10. Non-violence. Joan Baez foundation violence belief The search is in the doing. Joan Baez deeds As we know, forgiveness of oneself is the hardest of all the forgivenesses. Joan Baez oneself hardest knows Hypothetical questions get hypothetical answers. Joan Baez hypothetical logic answers To love means you also trust. Joan Baez love-means love mean Some people don't even notice. "Oh, you sound exactly like you did!" And I say, "OK, if that's what you want to believe, that's fine." Joan Baez sound believe people My father was a physicist and also an activist. My first public protest was with my dad at Stanford. I came by all that honestly. Joan Baez dad father firsts During the 'ballad' years for me, the politics was latent; I was just falling in love with the ballads and my boyfriend. And there was the beauty of the songs. Joan Baez falling-in-love song years We need to have faith in the people who are giving this movement direction to be smart enough to stay one step ahead of what's coming up next. Joan Baez smart giving people
