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Joan Chandos Baez (/baɪz/; born January 9, 1941) is an American folk singer, songwriter, musician, and activist whose contemporary folk music often includes songs of protest or social justice, Baez has performed publicly for over 60 years, releasing over 30 albums. Fluent in Spanish and English, she has also recorded songs in at least six other languages. She is regarded as a folk singer, although her music has diversified since the counterculture days of the 1960s and now encompasses everything from folk rock and pop to country and gospel music.

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We're not really pacifists, we're nonviolent soldiers.

Nonviolent, Pacifist, Pacifists, Soldier, Soldiers

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

Gonna, Living, Meaningful, Music, Song, Songs

"Diamonds & Rust" started off as another song. Then the words started to morph. When you write a song that deep, the words come from some place else. But when the songs stop coming, it would be so contrived to try and force it. Since then I've just been doing other people's music.

Come, Diamonds, Morph, Song, Trying, Writing

Now I know I understand that it was Sgt. Pepper's Band, that put the sixties into song, where have all the heroes gone?

Gone, Hero, Sgt, Sgt Pepper, Sixties, Song

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.

Beauty, Falling In Love, Latent, Song, Songs, Years

The foundation of my beliefs is the same as it was when I was 10. Non-violence.

Belief, Beliefs, Foundation, Same, Violence

I never pretended to be rock star. I would make a lousy rock star. I don't have the right voice for it. I don't have the "sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll" spirit. But the greatest flattery in the last couple of years is being called a "badass" by young singers.

Badass, Couple, Drug, Drugs, Lousy, Young

God must have something to do with joy. . . and with sadness.

God, Joy, Sadness

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

Survival, Survivor, Survivors, Transcend

When I was 16, the guest speaker was King. And I was completely overwhelmed because I had been studying nonviolence, talking about it, reading about it, but here it was happening, here it was people boycotting the buses and people on the streets and taking risks, which I think was the key.

King, Kings, Nonviolence, Reading, Streets, Thinking

The longer you practice nonviolence and the meditative qualities of it that you will need, the more likely you are to do something intelligent in any situation.

Intelligent, Nonviolence, Practice, Qualities, Quality

To sing is to love and affirm, to fly and to soar, to coast into the hearts of the people who listen to tell them that life is to live, that love is there, that nothing is a promise, but that beauty exists, and must be hunted for and found.

Heart, Love, Love Is, People, Promise, Tell

The search is in the doing.

Deeds, Search

Mostly what I listen to when I turn on my little iPod is opera.

Ipod, Ipods, Listen, Littles, Mostly, Opera

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.

Choose, Death, Decide, Inspirational, Live, Positive

I don't think of myself as a symbol of the sixties, but I do think of myself as a symbol of following through on your beliefs.

Belief, Beliefs, Follow Through, Sixties, Think, Thinking

Nonviolence is a flop. The only bigger flop is violence.

Bigger, Flop, Flopping, Nonviolence, Violence

Hypothetical questions get hypothetical answers.

Answers, Hypothetical, Logic, Questions

My dread is for my show to be a nostalgia act. So the key to it is how do we keep it fresh?

Dread, Fresh, Keep, Key, Keys, Nostalgia

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

Hope, Individual, Individuals, People, Ruins

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