To love means you also trust. Joan Baez More Quotes by Joan Baez More Quotes From 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 soldier mind heart 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 positive inspirational death Action is the antidote to despair. Joan Baez motivational happiness inspirational I went to jail for 11 days for disturbing the peace; I was trying to disturb the war. Joan Baez jail trying war 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 situation people thinking The easiest kind of relationship for me is with ten thousand people. The hardest is with one. Joan Baez relationship friendship peace To sing is to love and affirm, Joan Baez heart love-is people I've never had a humble opinion. If you've got an opinion, why be humble about it? Joan Baez humility humble witty 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 sorrow may morning I have hope in people, in individuals. Because you don't know what's going to rise from the ruins. Joan Baez ruins individual people 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 mind depression thinking As long as one keeps searching, the answers will come. Joan Baez thoughtful kindness long Someone had to change the world. And obviously I was the one for the job. Joan Baez changing-the-world jobs world To sing is to praise God and the daffodils, and to praise God is to thank Him, in every note within my small range, and every color in the tones of my voice, with every look into the eyes of my audience, to thank Him. Thank you, God, for letting me be born, for giving me eyes to see the daffodils lean in the wind, all my brothers, all my sisters, for giving me ears to hear crying, legs to come running, hands to smooth damp hair, a voice to laugh with and to sing with...to sing to you and the daffodils. Joan Baez eye brother running 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 government war country 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. Joan Baez women feminist giving 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 singers labels people If it's natural to kill, how come men have to go into training to learn how? Joan Baez military peace death If you don't have music, you have silence. There is power in both. Joan Baez silence ifs We're not really pacifists, we're nonviolent soldiers. Joan Baez pacifist soldier
