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I'm a painter first, and a musician second.

Joni Mitchell

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Joni Mitchell
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: November 7
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I heard someone from the music business saying they are no longer looking for talent, they want people with a certain look and a willingness to cooperate.
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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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You can give me 400,000 hostile people and I won't even break sweat. If you give me 200 adoring people, my mouth will dry out.
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It's life's illusions that I recall, I really don't know life at all
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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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Fear is like the wilderland - Stepping stones or sinking sand
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I've got 50 different tunings in the guitar.
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You wake up one day and suddenly realize that your youth is behind you, even though you're still young at heart.
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I learned from admiration and osmosis.
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everything comes and goes pleasure moves on too early and trouble leaves too slow
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There'll be icicles and birthday clothes And sometimes there'll be sorrow
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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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When I came to California, it was the mecca of the world. Every young person on the planet wanted to be here.
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I hang my laundry on the line when I write.
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But now old friends are acting strange They shake their heads, they say I've changed Well something's lost, but something's gained In living every day
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I never loved a man as far as I could pitch my shoe.
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With a painting, you don't have to go back and paint it again.
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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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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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