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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
Musician
Painter
Photographer
Poet
Record Producer
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Roberta Joan Anderson
Roberta Joan Joni Mitchell
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When you reach that kind of successful pinnacle, it is the nature of the business and the press and everything that they go about tearing you down.
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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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We're captive on the carousel of time, we can't return we can only look behind.
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The rock & roll industry is very incestuous, and we have all been close at one time or another. A lot of beautiful music and a lot of beautiful times came from that. A lot of pain, too, because, inevitably, different relationships broke up.
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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 snipe so steady, you snub so snide, so rip and ready to diminish and deride.
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Whatever it was that I felt was the weak link in my previous project gave me inspiration for the next one.
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You win the lasting laurels with your laughter.
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All the news of home you read, more about the war and of bloody changes.
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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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They paved paradise and put up a parking lot.
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All romantics meet the same fate some day. Drunk and cynical and boring someone in some dark cafe.
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I conceived in art college at the age of 20, near the end of term.
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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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In terms of fiction, I'd rather go out and have a good time than read a book about someone having a good or bad time.
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You could write a song about some kind of emotional problem you are having, but it would not be a good song, in my eyes, until it went through a period of sensitivity to a moment of clarity. Without that moment of clarity to contribute to the song, it's just complaining.
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We managed to put together a compilation that had some creativity to it. In the meantime I was listening to the free radio stations and I noticed that during their war coverage they were playing these songs born out of the Vietnam War that were all critical of the soldiers.
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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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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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I get the urge for going/But I never seem to go.
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