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No one likes to have less than they had before. That's the nature of the human animal.
Joni Mitchell
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Joni Mitchell
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: November 7
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Roberta Joan Anderson
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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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I certainly don't want to be an angry old artist.
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I'm a painter first, and a musician second.
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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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Unlike some of my peers, I haven't really hit a writer's block. When I hit a block I just paint, which is an old crop rotation trick.
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My style of songwriting is influenced by cinema. I'm a frustrated filmmaker. A fan once said to me, 'Girl, you make me see pictures in my head!' and I took that as a great compliment. That's exactly my intention.
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Ira Gershwin, shame on him. I mean, some of the writing.
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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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I'm not a pitiable creature. It's just that I suffer very eloquently.
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Do you see how you hurt me, baby? So I hurt you too. Then we both get so blue. I am on a lonely road and I am traveling, looking for the key to set me free.
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All the news of home you read, more about the war and of bloody changes.
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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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I can't remember anything I ever wrote.
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To enjoy my music, you need depth and emotionality.
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White rhythm is waltzes, marches, and the polka. In Africa, rhythm is used for a celebratory groove, but white rhythm doesn't have such an enormous vocabulary of spirits. It's basically militant.
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My parents told me I'd point to a bed of flowers and say 'Pink. Pretty,' before I knew any other words.
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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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I liked playing in small clubs. I really liked holding the attention of thirty or forty people. I never liked the roar of the big crowd.
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I was anti-intellectual to the nth. Basically I liked to dance and paint, and that was about it.
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I heard someone from the music business saying they are no longer looking for talent, they want people with a certain look and a willingness to cooperate.
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