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Joni Mitchell
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: November 7
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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 parkin lot With a pink hotel, a boutique, and a swingin' hot spot Don't it always seem to go That you don't know what you got till it's gone
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When you're trying to pass on the best of the stuff you're culling to what should be a hungry culture but you have it diminished... that's kind of disappointing.
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You win the lasting laurels with your laughter.
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I never loved a man as far as I could pitch my shoe.
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I was anti-intellectual to the nth. Basically I liked to dance and paint, and that was about it.
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Elusive dreams and vague desires fanned to fiery needs by deadly deeds of falling empires.
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I have one piece of music, since 1997, and I don't see it having lyrics. Where does it go in this world? So I haven't recorded it.
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Everybody's saying hell's the hippest way to go. Well, I don't think so, but I'm gonna take a look around it though.
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Oh, the jealousy, the greed is the unraveling. It's the unraveling and it undoes all the joy that could be. .
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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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My life came down to being a granny and watching a lot of television.
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I've looked at life from both sides now...from win and lose, and still somehow it's life's illusions I recall I really don't know life at all.
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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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I see bodies as individual things.
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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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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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I'm irresponsible to my career in order to paint. Because painting is obsessive. I forget to eat. I forget to sleep.
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I could drink a case of you, darlin'...and I would still be on my feet, yes I would still be on my feet.
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I'm a painter first, and a musician second.
Joni Mitchell