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I paint my joy and I sing my sorrow.

Joni Mitchell

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Joni Mitchell
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: November 7
Guitarist
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Roberta Joan Anderson
Roberta Joan Joni Mitchell
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I am a woman of heart and mind, looking for affection and respect, a little passion.
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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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I like my freedom. I like to do my own grocery shopping. People do recognize you. They are kind of shocked. Some people like it. It makes them feel at ease. It confirms their hopes that you are in fact similar to them.
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Land of snap decisions, land of short attention spans, nothing is savored long enough to really understand.
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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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My life came down to being a granny and watching a lot of television.
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All the news of home you read, more about the war and of bloody changes.
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I get the urge for going/But I never seem to go.
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My family could only afford to get me the box of eight Crayola crayons, but I craved the one with all 24 colours. I wanted magenta and turquoise and silver and gold.
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If I'm censoring for anyone, it's for my parents. They are very old-fashioned and moral people. They still don't understand me that well.
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The pirate he will sink you with a kiss, he'll steal your heart and sail away.
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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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