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I get the same charge from juxtaposition of colors as I do from juxtaposition of chords.

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Joni Mitchell
Age: 80
Born: 1943
Born: November 7
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Roberta Joan Anderson
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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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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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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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We call for the three great stimulants of the exhausted ones, artifice, brutality, and innocence.
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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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I do have this reputation for being a serious person.
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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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I conceived in art college at the age of 20, near the end of term.
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I find a lot of poetry to be narcissistic.
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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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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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He saw my complications and he mirrored me back simplified, and we laughed how our perfect world would always be denied.
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During times like these, the wise are influential.
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Buddy Holly and the early rock 'n' roll was no lighter than the way I play. It's very minimal.
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Richard got married to a figure skater, and he bought her a dishwasher and a coffee percolator.
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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 can't remember anything I ever wrote.
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They paved paradise and put up a parkin lot With a pink hotel, a boutique, and a swingin' hot spot Don't it always seem to go That you don't know what you got till it's gone
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The God of the Old Testament is the depiction of evil.
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The most important thing is to write in your own blood. I bare intimate feelings because people should know how other people feel.
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