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I learned from admiration and osmosis.

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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There was this mountain village in Russia where my music was getting in on some German radio station. I remember this because music used to get up to Saskatchewan from Texas. Late at night after the local station closed down.
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Buddy Holly and the early rock 'n' roll was no lighter than the way I play. It's very minimal.
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A few drinks later you're not so choosy when the closing lights strip off the shadows on this strange new flesh you've found.
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I've got 50 different tunings in the guitar.
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The most important thing is to write in your own blood. I bare intimate feelings because people should know how other people feel.
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Morgellons is constantly morphing. There are times when it's directly attacking the nervous system, as if you're being bitten by fleas and lice. It's all in the tissue and it's not a hallucination. It was eating me alive, sucking the juices out. I've been sick all my life.
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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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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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Inside your own self pity there you swim, in sinking down to drown her voice still haunts you, and only with your laughter can you win.
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They used to laugh at me when I refused to ride on all those double decker buses, all because there was no driver on the top.
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You've got to keep the child alive you can't create without it.
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I hang my laundry on the line when I write.
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Because Elvis gave 'em cars, you think I'm cheap.
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I conceived in art college at the age of 20, near the end of term.
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Daydreamin' drugs the pain of living.
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I get the same charge from juxtaposition of colors as I do from juxtaposition of chords.
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I came through folk music simply because it was easy to get into it.
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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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Everybody's saying hell's the hippest way to go. Well, I don't think so, but I'm gonna take a look around it though.
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It's life's illusions that I recall, I really don't know life at all
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