You may not know it, but at the far end of despair, there is a white clearing where one is almost happy. Joan Baez Read Quote
It seems to me that those songs that have been any good, I have nothing much to do with the writing of them. The words have just crawled down my sleeve and come out on the page. Joan Baez Read Quote
I spend a lot of time with Buddhists. I’m not a Buddhist, but their relationship with death interests me. Joan Baez Read Quote
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. Joan Baez Read Quote
During the ‘ballad’ years for me, the politics was latent; I was just falling in love with the ballads and my boyfriend. And there was the beauty of the songs. Joan Baez Read Quote
My dread is for my show to be a nostalgia act. So the key to it is how do we keep it fresh? Joan Baez Read Quote
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. Joan Baez Read Quote
The only thing that’s been a worse flop than the organization of non-violence has been the organization of violence. Joan Baez Read Quote
