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
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.
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.
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.
My dread is for my show to be a nostalgia act. So the key to it is how do we keep it fresh?
Sometimes I get lonesome for a storm. A fullblown storm where everything changes.
Now I know I understand that it was Sgt. Pepper's Band, that put the sixties into song, where have all the heroes gone?
Mostly what I listen to when I turn on my little iPod is opera.
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.
If you're gonna sing meaningful songs, you have to be committed to living a life that backs that up.
The only thing that's been a worse flop than the organization of nonviolence has been the organization of violence.