A collection of quotes and thoughts by Joan Chandos Baez on action, despair, humble, opinion, change, intelligent, violence, people, music, power, live, die and love.
Joan Chandos Baez is America’s most sought-after folk singer, activist, songwriter and musician. Her contemporary folk music usually reflects songs of social justice or protest. In her long career, she has released move than 30 albums, and recorded songs in approximately six other languages and is fluent in English as well as Spanish. Though her music has diversified since the counterculture days and now includes gospel music, folk rock, country, and pop, she is still regarded as a folk singer. She has spent her life working and being vocal about expressing her opinions, thoughts and views on subjects close to her heart which include civil rights, environment, human rights and nonviolence. We bring to you a list of quotable quotes, thoughts and sayings by Joan Chandos Baez which have been excerpted from her writings, songs, lyrics, music, works and life.
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.
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.
You may not know it, but at the far end of despair, there is a white clearing where one is almost happy.
Joan Chandos Baez
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.
Joan Chandos Baez
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.
My father was a physicist and also an activist. My first public protest was with my dad at Stanford. I came by all that honestly.
Joan Chandos Baez
I see a young man playing 'Plaisir d'Amour' on guitar. I knew I didn't want to go to college; I was already playing a ukulele, and after I saw that, I was hooked. All I wanted to do was play guitar and sing.
Joan Chandos Baez
The hardest song to write is a protest song, a topical song with meaning.
Joan Chandos Baez
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.
Joan Chandos Baez
As we know, forgiveness of oneself is the hardest of all the forgivenesses.
Joan Chandos Baez
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.
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.
