Joan Baez Short Quotes

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Hypothetical questions get hypothetical answers.

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We both know what memories can bring
They bring diamonds and rust

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All of us alive are survivors, but how many of us transcend survival?

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If it's natural to kill why do men have to go into training to learn how?

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Sometimes I get lonesome for a storm. A fullblown storm where everything changes.

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If you swing both ways, you really swing. I just figure you double your pleasure.

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

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

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

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

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His songs were brilliant; people have never been able to copy them. He always had a rainbow pen.
Of Bob Dylan

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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.

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

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

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My life is a crystal teardrop. There are snowflakes falling in the teardrop and little figures trudging in slow motion.

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With the precision of a hummingbird's heart
Was the lord of the monarch butterflies
One-time ruler of the world of art

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

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True he was a vocal miracle
But that's only secondary
It's the soul of the monarch butterfly
That I find a little bit scary

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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

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Instead of getting hard on ourselves and trying to compete, women should try and give their best qualities to men – bring them softness, teach them how to cry.

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We're the children of the 80's, haven't we grown
We're tender as a lotus and we're tougher than stone
And the age of our innocence is somewhere in the garden

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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.

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Seeing you sleeping peacefully on your back among your stuffed ducks, bears and basset hounds would remind me that no matter how good the next day might be, certain moments were gone forever.

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