Joan Baez Quotes

"Someone had to change the world, And obviously I was the one for the job."

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

"Action is the antidote to despair."

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

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

"The era in which I came on the scene was a ten year period of exceptional talent. I mean, nobody could top Dylan; they've been trying for years. Nobody can really top John Lennon."

"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."

"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."

"As long as one keeps searching, the answers come."

Great Quotes About Woodstock

Wavy Gravy: "Good morning! What we have in mind is breakfast in bed for four hundred thousand."

Richie Havens: "Woodstock was both a peaceful protest and a global celebration."

Grace Slick: "It was big. Half a million people doesn't necessarily mean something is good. It just means it's big."

Wavy Gravy: "There's always a little bit of heaven in a disaster area."

Edgar Winter: "But  when I played Woodstock, I'll never forget that moment looking out over the hundreds of thousands of people, the sea of humanity, seeing all those people united in such a unique way."

Johnny Rivers: "Even Woodstock turned out to be a disaster. Everybody was stuck in the mud and people got sick."

John Fogerty: "We were ready to rock out and we waited and waited and finally it was our turn...there were a half million people asleep."

Joan Baez: "I knew I was singing to a city."

Wavy Gravy: "We must be in heaven, man!"