Top 31 Quotes by Joan Baez

I've never been an optimist.

My father was a physicist and also an activist. My first public protest was with my dad at Stanford. I came by all that honestly.

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.

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

I spend a lot of time with Buddhists. I'm not a Buddhist, but their relationship with death interests me.

You may not know it, but at the far end of despair, there is a white clearing where one is almost happy.

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.

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

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.

The foundation of my beliefs is the same as it was when I was 10. Non-violence.