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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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We managed to put together a compilation that had some creativity to it. In the meantime I was listening to the free radio stations and I noticed that during their war coverage they were playing these songs born out of the Vietnam War that were all critical of the soldiers.
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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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I came through folk music simply because it was easy to get into it.
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Some get the gravy, some get the gristle.
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All the news of home you read, more about the war and of bloody changes.
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A few drinks later you're not so choosy when the closing lights strip off the shadows on this strange new flesh you've found.
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We are stardust, we are golden and we've got to get ourselves back to the garden.
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Fear is like the wilderland - Stepping stones or sinking sand
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There was this mountain village in Russia where my music was getting in on some German radio station. I remember this because music used to get up to Saskatchewan from Texas. Late at night after the local station closed down.
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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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Elusive dreams and vague desires fanned to fiery needs by deadly deeds of falling empires.
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When you reach that kind of successful pinnacle, it is the nature of the business and the press and everything that they go about tearing you down.
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I live in a box of paints I'm frightened by the devil And I'm drawn to those ones that ain't afraid
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Applause, applause, life is our cause.
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Land of snap decisions, land of short attention spans, nothing is savored long enough to really understand.
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Give me spots on my apples, but leave me the birds and the bees, please.
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I think I would go further into fine arts, I think, if I were to continue.
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I create by feeling rather than by intellectualizing.
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Oh, I am a lonely painter / I live in a box of paints.
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