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He was rarely tender, and seldom reached out to anticipate another’s needs, though occasionally he would exhibit a sudden concern for another outlaw, hitchhiker, or bum, and go out of his way to see them looked after. He was touching and infinitely fragile. His indescribably white hands moved constantly: putting a cigarette almost to his mouth, then tugging relentlessly at a tuft of hair at his neck, inadvertently dumping the cigarette ashes in dusty cavalcades down his jacket.

We’re not really pacifists, we’re nonviolent soldiers.

If it came back I would be thrilled. I would be delighted to write more songs. I need them now because I want to make an album and I have to depend on other people’s music, which I’ve done for years. But still, it’d be really nice to be able to sprinkle it with my own.

His humor was dry, private, and splendid. Sometimes he would start to chuckle. A little at a time, his lips would move from a genuine smile to a pucker. Then, instantly, he would tighten them back in, until a tiny convulsion of laughter would bring them back to the smile, and sometimes, a full grin followed by laughter.

Somebody else does the rigor and then I listen. I have an assistant, and my manager, and other people who hunt and find and send it to me, and then I just figure out which ones I can do justice to.

When I was 16, the guest speaker was King. And I was completely overwhelmed because I had been studying nonviolence, talking about it, reading about it, but here it was happening, here it was people boycotting the buses and people on the streets and taking risks, which I think was the key.

Reading Quotes

The search is in the doing.

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

My dread is for my show to be a nostalgia act. So the key to it is how do we keep it fresh?

Twelve years later, when I finally met and became friends with Sara, we talked for hours about those days when the Original Vagabond was two-timing us. I told Sara that I’d never found Bob to be much at giving gifts, but that he had once bought me a green corduroy coat, and had told me to keep a lovely blue nightgown from the Woodstock house. “Oh!” said Sara, “that’s where it went!

And my voice now is a struggle, it’s a daily struggle to keep it up. Gravity has begun to fight the vocal cords the way it does with everybody. So I have a vocal therapist, and we record the sessions and I use them on tour every day.

I’ve been obsessed with stopping people from blowing each other’s brains out since I was ten.

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

Maybe that afternoon was the closest I ever felt to Bob: his eyes were as old as God, and he was fragile as a winter leaf.

Sometimes I think that it is enough to say that if we don’t sit down and shut up once in a while we’ll lose our minds even earlier than we had expected. Noise is an imposition on sanity, and we live in very noisy times.

I asked him what made us different, and he said it was simple, that I thought I could change things, and he knew that no one could.

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.

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

People say I’m such a pessimist, but I always was. It never stopped me from doing what I had to do. I would say I’m a realist.

Seeing you sleeping peacefully on your back among your stuffed ducks, bears and basset hounds, would remind me that no matter how good the next day might be, certain moments were gone forever because we could not go backwards in time.

I think the question that nobody wanted to deal with is the question they’re posing: did my kid die in vain? Because the answer is too awful.

I was born gifted. I can speak of my gifts with little or no modesty, but with tremendous gratitude, precisely because they are gifts, and not things which I created, or actions about which I might be proud.

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.

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.

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

Living so fully, I can’t imagine what any drug could do for me.

We need to have faith in the people who are giving this movement direction to be smart enough to stay one step ahead of what’s coming up next.

The longer you practice nonviolence and the meditative qualities of it that you will need, the more likely you are to do something intelligent in any situation.

I’d hear a tune in my head and the words would come. And then, very suddenly it just stopped. It seemed too stilted to try and learn how to write a song, to go to round robins and to learn things from other people on how to write a song. So I just stopped and did other things.

The hardest song to write is a protest song, a topical song with meaning.

Some people don’t even notice. “Oh, you sound exactly like you did!” And I say, “OK, if that’s what you want to believe, that’s fine.”

I first saw Bob Dylan in 1961 at Gerde’s Folk City in Greenwich Village. He was not overly impressive. He looked like an urban hillbilly, with hair short around the ears and curly on top.

The point on nonviolence is to build a floor, a strong new floor, beneath which we can no longer sink.

Strong Quotes

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

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

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

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

Noise is an imposition on sanity, and we live in very noisy times.

God respects me when I work. He loves me when I sing. Tagore.

Sometimes I get lonesome for a storm. A fullblown storm where everything changes.

My life is a crystal teardrop. There are snowflakes falling in the teardrop and little figures trudging in slow motion.

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.

I have been true to the principles of nonviolence, developing a stronger and stronger aversion to the ideologies of both the far right and the far left and a deeper sense of rage and sorrow over the suffering they continue to produce all over the world.

Put tattoos all up and down our thighs, do anything our parents would despise. Take uppers, downers, blues, and reds and yellows, our brains are turning into jello.

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

I was trying to disturb the war.

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

There’s a consensus out that it’s OK to kill when your government decides who to kill. If you kill inside the country you get in trouble. If you kill outside the country, right time, right season, latest enemy, you get a medal.

That’s all nonviolence is – organized love.

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

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