Joan Baez
Joan Baez
Joan Baezis 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 55 years, releasing over 30 albums. Fluent in Spanish as well as in 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...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionMusician
Date of Birth9 January 1941
CountryUnited States of America
Whatever I'm sharing with somebody half my age I'm getting equally, at least, the same back from them, ... What Eliza does for me, with me on the stage, is kick it up a notch.
If we dont sit down and shut up once in a while well lose our minds even earlier than we had expected. Noise is an imposition on sanity, and we live in very noisy times.
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.
I don't know to this day what he's all about. All I know is what he gave us.
free of any major label associations in the United States.
If I can do anything, sing a song, talk, listen, I'm here,
I felt very definitely about Crawford, that, whether or not people actually stayed with it, a spark had been lit,
I generally like to get to the point.
I realized after the first two hours, I had been smiling the whole time, ... It was a motherly smile, but also appreciation for a documentary really well made. Bob revealed more than I think anyone really expected him to. I think Scorsese gets some five stars for that. He done good.
In the first march I went to there were 10 of us. This is huge.
Good morning, children of the 80s. This is your Woodstock, and it's long overdue.
The easiest kind of relationship is with ten thousand people, the hardest is with one.
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.