144 Quotes by Joan Baez

If you don’t have music, you have silence. There is power in both.

I think music has the power to transform people, and in doing so, it has the power to transform situations – some large and some small.

And my voice now is a struggle, it’s a daily struggle to keep it up. Gravity has begun to fight the vocal cords the way it does with everybody. So I have a vocal therapist, and we record the sessions and I use them on tour every day.

I’m lucky to have met so many people who have been involved in peace and who have been peace prize winners.

If you’re gonna sing meaningful songs, you have to be committed to living a life that backs that up.

I asked him what made us different, and he said it was simple, that I thought I could change things, and he knew that no one could.

I have hope in people, in individuals. Because you don’t know what’s going to rise from the ruins.

Sometimes I think that it is enough to say that if we don’t sit down and shut up once in a while we’ll lose our minds even earlier than we had expected. Noise is an imposition on sanity, and we live in very noisy times.

Only you and I can help the sun rise each coming morning. If we don’t, it may drench itself out in sorrow.