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everything comes and goes pleasure moves on too early and trouble leaves too slow

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Joni Mitchell
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: November 7
Guitarist
Musician
Painter
Photographer
Poet
Record Producer
Recording Artist
Singer
Songwriter
Roberta Joan Anderson
Roberta Joan Joni Mitchell
Trouble
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My childhood was very difficult. I had every childhood disease and then some, but my parents didnt mollycoddle me. They left me to fight those battles on my own. I guess that was very Canadian, very stoic. But its good. I had to become a warrior. I had to give up hope and find a substitute for hope that would be far more stable.
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And the seasons they go 'round and 'round And the painted ponies go up and down We're captive on the carousel of time We can't return we can only look behind From where we came And go round and round and round In the circle game.
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You snipe so steady, you snub so snide, so rip and ready to diminish and deride.
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Lord, there's danger in this land, you get witch hunts and wars when church and state hold hands.
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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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In terms of fiction, I'd rather go out and have a good time than read a book about someone having a good or bad time.
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Elusive dreams and vague desires fanned to fiery needs by deadly deeds of falling empires.
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