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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 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'm a method actress in my songs, which is why it's hard to sing them.
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I see bodies as individual things.
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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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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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We call for the three great stimulants of the exhausted ones, artifice, brutality, and innocence.
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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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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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My life came down to being a granny and watching a lot of television.
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All romantics meet the same fate some day. Drunk and cynical and boring someone in some dark cafe.
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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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They used to laugh at me when I refused to ride on all those double decker buses, all because there was no driver on the top.
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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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Because Elvis gave 'em cars, you think I'm cheap.
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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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I paint my joy and I sing my sorrow.
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The thing that started me painting originally was seeing Bambi when I was about nine. I was incredibly disturbed by the forest fire that killed Bambi's mother, and that distress gave me the impulse to create something, as a way of dealing with it.
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I know my generation - a lot of them, they're getting old now, and they want to think back fondly, they want to kid themselves. A lot of them think, 'Yeah, we were the best.' That's the kiss of death. That's non-growth. And also that's very bad for the world.
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Give me spots on my apples, but leave me the birds and the bees, please.
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