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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
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Roberta Joan Anderson
Roberta Joan Joni Mitchell
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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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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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Musically, I don't think I'd ever dry up. I trust my musical invention.
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During times like these, the wise are influential.
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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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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 was young for my age. Not as naïve as they expected. I don't know why I seem to bring that out in people.
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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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My name had gone stale, and no matter how progressive I got, it was my time to die.
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The thing that started me painting originally was seeing Bambi when I was about nine. I was incredibly disturbed by the forest fire that killed Bambi's mother, and that distress gave me the impulse to create something, as a way of dealing with it.
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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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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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They won't give peace a chance, that's just a dream some of us had
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I think I would go further into fine arts, I think, if I were to continue.
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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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I am a woman of heart and mind, looking for affection and respect, a little passion.
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I'm not a pitiable creature. It's just that I suffer very eloquently.
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I'm a painter first, and a musician second.
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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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I have always thought of myself as a painter derailed by circumstance.
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