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To enjoy my music, you need depth and emotionality.

Joni Mitchell

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Joni Mitchell
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: November 7
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Roberta Joan Anderson
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I don't know who I am but you know, life is for learning.
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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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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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Lord, there's danger in this land, you get witch hunts and wars when church and state hold hands.
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I conceived in art college at the age of 20, near the end of term.
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Because Elvis gave 'em cars, you think I'm cheap.
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People were very protective of me. Overly so. I was in the industry for a long time before I had any idea of what drugs people were doing.
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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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I'm not a pitiable creature. It's just that I suffer very eloquently.
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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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You have this mounting aggressive ignorance with the rabbit's foot of their particular religion. You don't really have any kind of spiritual law, just a kind of a rabid mental illness. The songs are a little slice of life.
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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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I do have this reputation for being a serious person.
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I like my freedom. I like to do my own grocery shopping.
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I have always thought of myself as a painter derailed by circumstance.
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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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you dont know what you got till its gone
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I came through folk music simply because it was easy to get into it.
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I wish I had a river I could skate away on?
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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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