Joan Baez

American contemporary folk musician (born 1941)

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Born 1941
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2022

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She made protest beautiful — a voice so pure it turned folk songs into anthems and launched careers that weren't her own. For sixty years, Joan Baez has been the sound of resistance without ever needing to shout.

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Born January 9, 1941, Baez hit immediately in 1960: her first three albums went gold before she'd written much herself. She became known as an interpreter, covering everyone from Woody Guthrie to the Beatles, but her early championing of Bob Dylan—recording his songs when he was still unknown—made his name as much as hers. Their relationship, messy and public, later fed songs by both. She sang fourteen sets at Woodstock in 1969, wrote "Diamonds & Rust," and spent six decades in civil rights and nonviolence work. Her music drifted from folk into rock, pop, gospel, and country, but the through-l…

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Sourced, dated quotes from Joan Baez

Joan Baez

said2023

I just sing when I feel like singing, feels sort of like exploding.

— Interview with NPR (2023)

Joan Baez

said2019

I’ve never taken much time to do nothing, which I think is pretty important, especially at my age, and sort of contemplating what is coming.

— Interview (2019)

Joan Baez

said2009

The only thing you can do about memory is just be very humble about it because it may not have much to do with reality.

— Joan Baez Interview (2009)

Joan Baez

said2009

(about Woodstock) I think it was fantastic. I think the only way its been overdone was thinking it changed the world, politically and as far as the war went.

— Interview (2009)

Joan Baez

said16 Jan 1973