Zitat des Tages von Joan Baez:
If it's natural to kill, how come men have to go into training to learn how?
You may not know it, but at the far end of despair, there is a white clearing where one is almost happy.
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.
Action is the antidote to despair.
The foundation of my beliefs is the same as it was when I was 10. Non-violence.
That's all nonviolence is - organized love.
It seems to me that those songs that have been any good, I have nothing much to do with the writing of them. The words have just crawled down my sleeve and come out on the page.
The only thing that's been a worse flop than the organization of non-violence has been the organization of violence.
Nonviolence is a flop. The only bigger flop is violence.
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.
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.
Someone had to change the world. And obviously I was the one for the job.
My dread is for my show to be a nostalgia act. So the key to it is how do we keep it fresh?
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.
The easiest kind of relationship for me is with ten thousand people. The hardest is with one.
I've never had a humble opinion. If you've got an opinion, why be humble about it?
As we know, forgiveness of oneself is the hardest of all the forgivenesses.
We were raised with that discussion about violence and non-violence, and we all pretty much came up on the side of non-violence. That became my foundation with politics and my livelihood.
I spend a lot of time with Buddhists. I'm not a Buddhist, but their relationship with death interests me.
I didn't go through the routine of singing in small clubs and doing open mics and working so hard the way a lot of people do and did. It was just an overnight kind of thing.
