Joan Baez Quotes & Sayings

“The easiest kind of relationship for me is with ten thousand people. The hardest is with one.”

“You don't get to choose how you're going to die, or when. You can only decide how you're going to live. Now.”

“I've never had a humble opinion. If you've got an opinion, why be humble about it?”

“Action is the antidote to despair.”

“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.”

“If it's natural to kill, how come men have to go into training to learn how?”

“As we know, forgiveness of oneself is the hardest of all the forgivenesses.”

“The hardest song to write is a protest song, a topical song with meaning.”

“The only thing that's been a worse flop than the organization of non-violence has been the organization of violence.”

“Nonviolence is a flop. The only bigger flop is violence.”