Joan Baez citáty

Joan Baezová celým jménem Joan Chandos Baez je americká folková zpěvačka, písničkářka. Je známá svým charakteristickým hlasem . Její interpretace Arie No.5 Bachianas Brasileiras nebyla dosud překonána. Mnoho jejích textů je o aktuálních tématech a sociálních problémech. Je známá také svým dlouhodobým vztahem s Bobem Dylanem a jako politická aktivistka. Jejím hlavním tématem jsou lidská práva. Oceňovány jsou také její interpretace písní jiných autorů, mezi které patří: Bob Dylan, Pete Seeger, The Beatles, Paul Simon, The Rolling Stones, Stevie Wonder a mnoho dalších. Wikipedia  

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“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.”

Daybreak http://books.google.com/books?id=Imte1JcsQ64C&q=%22You+don't+get+to+choose+how+you're+going+to+die+Or+when+You+can+only+decide+how+you're+going+to+live+Now%22&pg=PA135#v=onepage (1968)
Variant or paraphrase: You can't decide how you're going to die. Or when. What you can decide is how you're going to live now.

“All of us alive are survivors, but how many of us transcend survival?”

And A Voice to Sing With : A Memoir (2012), p. 322

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

Daybreak http://books.google.com/books?&id=ngoIAQAAMAAJ&q=%22the+only+thing+that%27s+been+a+worse+flop+than+the+organization+of+nonviolence+has+been+the+organization+of+violence%22 (1968)

“I went to jail for 11 days for disturbing the peace; I was trying to disturb the war.”

Pop Chronicles, Show 19 - Blowin' in the Wind: Pop discovers folk music http://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc19769/m1/, interview recorded 12.3.1967 http://www.library.unt.edu/resolveuid/24bc6899959ba29ac6feca22c5ad8ed9

“If we survive this century it will only be because you and I refuse to become Nazis.”

Joan Baez, SF Chronicle, 16 January 1973, reprinted as the epigraph of the book Bohemia: the protoculture then and now by Richard Miller (Nelson-Hall, Chicago, 1977)