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I'm a very analytical person, a somewhat introspective person that's the nature of the work I do.

Joni Mitchell

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Joni Mitchell
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: November 7
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Rachmaninoff made a musician out of me. His 'Rhapsody on a Theme by Paganini' was the piece that sent me into raptures. It spoke to me. To me, it was a tender entreaty for the misunderstood.
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At the point where I'm trying to force something and it's not happening, and I'm getting frustrated with, say, writing a poem, I can go and pick up the brushes and start painting. At the point where the painting seems to not be going anywhere, I go and pick up the guitar.
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So many things I would have done, but clouds got in my way.
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I dreamed I saw the bombers riding shot gun in the sky and they were turning into butterflies above our nation.
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I come from pioneer stock, developers of the West, people who went out into the wilderness and set up home with nothing but a pair of oxen.
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Fear is like the wilderland - Stepping stones or sinking sand
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We're captive on the carousel of time, we can't return we can only look behind.
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Everybody's saying hell's the hippest way to go. Well, I don't think so, but I'm gonna take a look around it though.
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I like my freedom. I like to do my own grocery shopping. People do recognize you. They are kind of shocked. Some people like it. It makes them feel at ease. It confirms their hopes that you are in fact similar to them.
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And the seasons they go 'round and 'round And the painted ponies go up and down We're captive on the carousel of time We can't return we can only look behind From where we came And go round and round and round In the circle game.
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The only thing I have to give to make you smile, to win you with, are all the mornings still to live.
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We'll laugh and toast to nothing, and smash our empty glasses down.
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I loved Debussy, Stravinsky, Chopin, Tchaikovsky, anything with romantic melodies, especially the nocturnes. Nietzsche was a hero, especially with Thus Spoke Zarathustra. He gets a bad rap hes very misunderstood. Hes a maker of individuals, and he was a teacher of teachers.
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I could drink a case of you, darlin'...and I would still be on my feet, yes I would still be on my feet.
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Once I got the open tunings for some reason, I began to get the harmonic sophistication that I heard that my musical fountain inside was excited by. Once I got some interesting chords to play with, my writing began to come.
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Whatever it was that I felt was the weak link in my previous project gave me inspiration for the next one.
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Fly silly sea bird, no dreams can possess you, no voices can blame you for sun on your wings.
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Does the moon play only silver when it strums the galaxy?
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You have this mounting aggressive ignorance with the rabbit's foot of their particular religion. You don't really have any kind of spiritual law, just a kind of a rabid mental illness. The songs are a little slice of life.
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Morgellons is constantly morphing. There are times when it's directly attacking the nervous system, as if you're being bitten by fleas and lice. It's all in the tissue and it's not a hallucination. It was eating me alive, sucking the juices out. I've been sick all my life.
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