Joan Baez Quotations

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.

I'm lucky to have met so many people who have been involved in peace and who have been peace prize winners.

There is chaos. There's bloodshed. There's carnage.

I have been true to the principles of nonviolence, developing a stronger and stronger aversion to the ideologies of both the far right and the far left and a deeper sense of rage and sorrow over the suffering they continue to produce all over the world.

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

Sometimes I get lonesome for a storm. A full blown storm where everything changes. The sky goes through four days in an hour, the trees wail, little animals skitter in the mud and everything gets dark and goes completely wild. But it is really God - playing music in his favourite cathedral in heaven - shattering stained glass - playing a gigantic organ - thundering on the keys - perfect harmony - perfect joy.

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

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

Living so fully, I can't imagine what any drug could do for me.

People say I'm such a pessimist, but I always was. It never stopped me from doing what I had to do. I would say I'm a realist.