Good morning, children of the 80s. This is your Woodstock, and it's long overdue.
– Joan Baez
I've never had a humble opinion. If you've got an opinion, why be humble about it?
– Joan Baez
If it's natural to kill, how come men have to go into training to learn how?
– Joan 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.
– Joan 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 Baez
Nonviolence is a flop. The only bigger flop is violence.
– Joan Baez
That's all nonviolence is - organized love.
– Joan Baez
The easiest kind of relationship for me is with ten thousand people. The hardest is with one.
– Joan Baez
The only thing that's been a worse flop than the organization of non-violence has been the organization of violence.
– Joan 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.
– Joan Baez
As we know, forgiveness of oneself is the hardest of all the forgivenesses.