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

Joni Mitchell

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Joni Mitchell
Age: 80
Born: 1943
Born: November 7
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It's life's illusions that I recall, I really don't know life at all
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All the news of home you read, more about the war and of bloody changes.
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The considerations of a corporation, especially now, have nothing to do with art or music.
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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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All my battles were with male egos. I’m just looking for equality, not to dominate. But I want to be able to control my vision.
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To enjoy my music, you need depth and emotionality.
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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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Laughing and crying, you know it's the same release.
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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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The only thing I have to give to make you smile, to win you with, are all the mornings still to live.
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I'm a method actress in my songs, which is why it's hard to sing them.
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You win the lasting laurels with your laughter.
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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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I am as constant as a northern star
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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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I lost my daughter at 21. I had to give her up because I was broke, no place to take her, no money to take her. That was very traumatic.
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