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My name had gone stale, and no matter how progressive I got, it was my time to die.
Joni Mitchell
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Joni Mitchell
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: November 7
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Roberta Joan Anderson
Roberta Joan Joni Mitchell
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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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I don't know who I am but you know, life is for learning.
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Fear is like the wilderland - Stepping stones or sinking sand
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All the news of home you read, more about the war and of bloody changes.
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No one likes to have less than they had before. That's the nature of the human animal.
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I'm irresponsible to my career in order to paint. Because painting is obsessive. I forget to eat. I forget to sleep.
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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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Back then, I didn't have a big organization around me. I was just a kid with a guitar, traveling around. My responsibility basically was to the art, and I had extra time on my hands. There is no extra time now. There isn't enough time.
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I conceived in art college at the age of 20, near the end of term.
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I never loved a man as far as I could pitch my shoe.
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I have always thought of myself as a painter derailed by circumstance.
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People were very protective of me. Overly so. I was in the industry for a long time before I had any idea of what drugs people were doing.
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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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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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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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To enjoy my music, you need depth and emotionality.
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What I do is unusual: chordal movements that have never been used before, changing keys and modalities mid-song.
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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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Abstract Expressionism was invented by New York drunks.
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