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For the first time in my career, I'm working in a fine-arts arena, so I'm finally getting some intelligent reviews.

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Joni Mitchell
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: November 7
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I came through folk music simply because it was easy to get into it.
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During times like these, the wise are influential.
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All the news of home you read, more about the war and of bloody changes.
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I got in before SoHo was SoHo. It was just Little Italy when I was in there. It's still off the touristy track. It's just away from the Saturday action, the crowds and everything. It's too expensive. It's insane. You've got to be a billionaire to live on Manhattan now.
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If you see yourself as a kingly type, then you need your serfs and your army and so on around you.
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I've looked at life from both sides now...from win and lose, and still somehow it's life's illusions I recall I really don't know life at all.
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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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They paved paradise and put up a parking lot.
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Oh it gets so lonely When you're walking And the streets are full of strangers
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you dont know what you got till its gone
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We call for the three great stimulants of the exhausted ones, artifice, brutality, and innocence.
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You can give me 400,000 hostile people and I won't even break sweat. If you give me 200 adoring people, my mouth will dry out.
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You wake up one day and suddenly realize that your youth is behind you, even though you're still young at heart.
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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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Americans have decided to be stupid and shallow since 1980.
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Lazy reviewers look up other people's reviews and they write the same thing, so you get people writing crap based on crap.
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I never loved a man as far as I could pitch my shoe.
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Elusive dreams and vague desires fanned to fiery needs by deadly deeds of falling empires.
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Because Elvis gave 'em cars, you think I'm cheap.
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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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