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Fame is a series of misunderstandin gs surrounding a name.

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Joni Mitchell
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: November 7
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Roberta Joan Anderson
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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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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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I'm a painter first, and a musician second.
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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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Love is a very hard feeling to keep alive. It's a very fragile plant.
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With a painting, you don't have to go back and paint it again.
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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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For the first time in my career, I'm working in a fine-arts arena, so I'm finally getting some intelligent reviews.
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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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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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Land of snap decisions, land of short attention spans, nothing is savored long enough to really understand.
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If you see yourself as a kingly type, then you need your serfs and your army and so on around you.
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So many things I would have done, but clouds got in my way.
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The God of the Old Testament is the depiction of evil.
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During times like these, the wise are influential.
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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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Fear is like the wilderland - Stepping stones or sinking sand
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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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Yesterday a child came out to wonder Caught a dragonfly inside a jar Fearful when the sky was full of thunder And tearful at the falling of a star
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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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