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
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.
Noise is an imposition on sanity, and we live in very noisy times.
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?
Dylan made it pretty clear he didn't want to do all that other stuff,
I think Cindy and the women have impeccable credentials -- no matter how hard people try to slander and assassinate their personalities, it is impeccable credentials. I think they simply can't be not listened to.
You can even hear me go flat in places, ... It's all over that recording. The audience was in a dark depression. We didn't even include all of their responses, as you might imagine.
I thought it was monumentally well run and I had a marvelous time playing it.
free of any major label associations in the United States.
I don't know to this day what he's all about. All I know is what he gave us.
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 was going to say thank you for inviting me but I already had my plane ticket.
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.