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I came through folk music simply because it was easy to get into it.

Joni Mitchell

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Joni Mitchell
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: November 7
Guitarist
Musician
Painter
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Roberta Joan Anderson
Roberta Joan Joni Mitchell
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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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During times like these, the wise are influential.
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I was young for my age. Not as naïve as they expected. I don't know why I seem to bring that out in people.
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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'm a very analytical person, a somewhat introspective person that's the nature of the work I do.
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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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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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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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All romantics meet the same fate some day. Drunk and cynical and boring someone in some dark cafe.
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If you're smart or rich or lucky Maybe you'll beat the laws of man But the inner laws of spirit And the outer laws of nature No man can
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My life came down to being a granny and watching a lot of television.
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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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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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I lost my daughter at 21. I had to give her up because I was broke, no place to take her, no money to take her. That was very traumatic.
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I create by feeling rather than by intellectualizing.
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