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Joni Mitchell
Age: 80
Born: 1943
Born: November 7
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Roberta Joan Anderson
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My life came down to being a granny and watching a lot of television.
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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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All I really, really want our love to do is to bring out the best in me and in you too.
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I don't know who I am but you know, life is for learning.
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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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We'll laugh and toast to nothing, and smash our empty glasses down.
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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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Fibers in a variety of colors protrude out of my skin like mushrooms after a rainstorm. They cannot be forensically identified as animal, vegetable or mineral.
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If you're smart or rich or lucky Maybe you'll beat the laws of man But the inner laws of spirit And the outer laws of nature No man can
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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'm a method actress in my songs, which is why it's hard to sing them.
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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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You know that it never has been easy Whether you do or do not resign Whether you travel the breadth of the extremities Or stick to some straighter line.
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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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What I do is unusual: chordal movements that have never been used before, changing keys and modalities mid-song.
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Happiness is the best facelift.
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Some turn to Jesus and some turn to heroin.
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I learned from admiration and osmosis.
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When you're trying to pass on the best of the stuff you're culling to what should be a hungry culture but you have it diminished... that's kind of disappointing.
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Oh, I am a lonely painter / I live in a box of paints.
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