Joan Baez Quotes

"Hypothetical questions get hypothetical answers."
- Joan Baez
(Related: Answers, Questions)

"I've never had a humble opinion. If you've got an opinion, why be humble about it?"
- Joan Baez
(Related: Opinion)

"You don't get to choose how you are going to die or when. You can only decide how you're going to live."
- Joan Baez

"The only thing that's been a worse flop than the organization of non-violence has been the organization of violence."
- Joan Baez
(Related: Violence)

"Nonviolence is a flop. The only bigger flop is violence."
- Joan Baez
(Related: Nonviolence)

"The easiest kind of relationship for me is with ten thousand people. The hardest is with one."
- Joan Baez
(Related: People)

"If it's natural to kill, how come men have to go into training to learn how?"
- Joan Baez
(Related: Men, Training)

"Instead of getting hard ourselves and trying to compete, women should try and give their best qualities to men - bring them softness, teach them how to cry."
- Joan Baez
(Related: Men, Women, Trying)

"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
(Related: Nothing, Songs, Words, Writing)

"Action is the antidote to despair."
- Joan Baez
(Related: Action, Despair)

"You may not know it, but at the far end of despair, there is a white clearing where one is almost happy."
- Joan Baez
(Related: Despair, End, May)