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They won't give peace a chance, that's just a dream some of us had
Joni Mitchell
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Joni Mitchell
Age: 80
Born: 1943
Born: November 7
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Roberta Joan Anderson
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The thing that started me painting originally was seeing Bambi when I was about nine. I was incredibly disturbed by the forest fire that killed Bambi's mother, and that distress gave me the impulse to create something, as a way of dealing with it.
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I dreamed I saw the bombers riding shot gun in the sky and they were turning into butterflies above our nation.
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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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I came through folk music simply because it was easy to get into it.
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Love is a very hard feeling to keep alive. It's a very fragile plant.
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To enjoy my music, you need depth and emotionality.
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I loved Debussy, Stravinsky, Chopin, Tchaikovsky, anything with romantic melodies, especially the nocturnes. Nietzsche was a hero, especially with Thus Spoke Zarathustra. He gets a bad rap hes very misunderstood. Hes a maker of individuals, and he was a teacher of teachers.
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In some ways, my gift for music and writing was born out of tragedy, really, and loss.
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I could drink a case of you, darlin'...and I would still be on my feet, yes I would still be on my feet.
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So many things I would have done, but clouds got in my way.
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I assume there must be some kind of genetic thrust. My two grandmothers were very different, but both of them were frustrated musicians.
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I lost my daughter at 21. I had to give her up because I was broke, no place to take her, no money to take her. That was very traumatic.
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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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