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
Back then I was still listening to rhythm and blues, and my aunt took me to see a Pete Seeger concert. And it gelled. He made all the sense in the world to me. I got addicted to his albums, and then Belafonte and Odetta - they were the people who seemed to fuse things that were important to me into music. I think Pete the most because he did what he did to the point where he took those enormous risks and then paid for them.
Dylan made it pretty clear he didn't want to do all that other stuff,
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.
The only thing that's been a worse flop than the organization of non-violence has been the organization of violence.
I spend a lot of time with Buddhists. I'm not a Buddhist, but their relationship with death interests me.
I've never had a humble opinion in my life. If you're going to have one, why bother to be humble about it?
As long as one keeps searching, the answers come
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.
I was going to say thank you for inviting me but I already had my plane ticket.
You don't get to choose how you are going to die or when. You can only decide how you're going to live.
You don't get to choose how you are going to die or when. You can only decide how you're going to live.
I tried to figure him out and gave up a long time ago.