Top 31 Quotes by Joan 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.

I spend a lot of time with Buddhists. I'm not a Buddhist, but their relationship with death interests me.

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.

Someone had to change the world. And obviously I was the one for the job.

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

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

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.

As we know, forgiveness of oneself is the hardest of all the forgivenesses.

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.

The easiest kind of relationship for me is with ten thousand people. The hardest is with one.