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I get the same charge from juxtaposition of colors as I do from juxtaposition of chords.
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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everything comes and goes pleasure moves on too early and trouble leaves too slow
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