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In some ways, my gift for music and writing was born out of tragedy, really, and loss.
Joni Mitchell
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Joni Mitchell
Age: 80
Born: 1943
Born: November 7
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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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My name had gone stale, and no matter how progressive I got, it was my time to die.
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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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I'm a method actress in my songs, which is why it's hard to sing them.
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We'll laugh and toast to nothing, and smash our empty glasses down.
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I think I would go further into fine arts, I think, if I were to continue.
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All my battles were with male egos. I’m just looking for equality, not to dominate. But I want to be able to control my vision.
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The only thing I have to give to make you smile, to win you with, are all the mornings still to live.
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When the spirit of child's play enters into the creative process, it's a wonderful force and something to be nurtured.
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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'm not a pitiable creature. It's just that I suffer very eloquently.
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Americans have decided to be stupid and shallow since 1980.
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With a painting, you don't have to go back and paint it again.
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They'll crucify you for staying the same, and they'll crucify you for change. I'd rather be crucified for changing.
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Oh, the jealousy, the greed is the unraveling. It's the unraveling and it undoes all the joy that could be. .
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We have a war dictator who was not elected, he snuck in. so he punishes people that threaten him in any way, or even say something he doesn't like. It has no resemblance to democracy.
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We are stardust, we are golden and we've got to get ourselves back to the garden.
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You have this mounting aggressive ignorance with the rabbit's foot of their particular religion. You don't really have any kind of spiritual law, just a kind of a rabid mental illness. The songs are a little slice of life.
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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 don't know who I am but you know, life is for learning.
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