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Joni Mitchell
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: November 7
Guitarist
Musician
Painter
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Roberta Joan Anderson
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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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Some get the gravy, some get the gristle.
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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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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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White rhythm is waltzes, marches, and the polka. In Africa, rhythm is used for a celebratory groove, but white rhythm doesn't have such an enormous vocabulary of spirits. It's basically militant.
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At the point where I'm trying to force something and it's not happening, and I'm getting frustrated with, say, writing a poem, I can go and pick up the brushes and start painting. At the point where the painting seems to not be going anywhere, I go and pick up the guitar.
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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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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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You could write a song about some kind of emotional problem you are having, but it would not be a good song, in my eyes, until it went through a period of sensitivity to a moment of clarity. Without that moment of clarity to contribute to the song, it's just complaining.
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You know that it never has been easy Whether you do or do not resign Whether you travel the breadth of the extremities Or stick to some straighter line.
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Does the moon play only silver when it strums the galaxy?
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Rachmaninoff made a musician out of me. His 'Rhapsody on a Theme by Paganini' was the piece that sent me into raptures. It spoke to me. To me, it was a tender entreaty for the misunderstood.
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When you're trying to pass on the best of the stuff you're culling to what should be a hungry culture but you have it diminished... that's kind of disappointing.
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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 get the same charge from juxtaposition of colors as I do from juxtaposition of chords.
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My life came down to being a granny and watching a lot of television.
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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 see the entire world as Eden, and every time you take an inch of it away, you must do so with respect.
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I was anti-intellectual to the nth. Basically I liked to dance and paint, and that was about it.
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I heard someone from the music business saying they are no longer looking for talent, they want people with a certain look and a willingness to cooperate.
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