Quotes from Joan Baez

Mostly what I listen to when I turn on my little iPod is opera.

I've never been an optimist.

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.

I've never had a humble opinion in my life. If you're going to have one why bother to be humble about it?

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

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

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.

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

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

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