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I don't know who I am but you know, life is for learning.

Joni Mitchell

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Joni Mitchell
Age: 80
Born: 1943
Born: November 7
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Roberta Joan Anderson
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In terms of fiction, I'd rather go out and have a good time than read a book about someone having a good or bad time.
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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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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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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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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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I'm a painter first, and a musician second.
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I never loved a man as far as I could pitch my shoe.
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We're captive on the carousel of time, we can't return we can only look behind.
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I create by feeling rather than by intellectualizing.
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Do you see how you hurt me, baby? So I hurt you too. Then we both get so blue. I am on a lonely road and I am traveling, looking for the key to set me free.
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There was this mountain village in Russia where my music was getting in on some German radio station. I remember this because music used to get up to Saskatchewan from Texas. Late at night after the local station closed down.
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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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Yesterday a child came out to wonder Caught a dragonfly inside a jar Fearful when the sky was full of thunder And tearful at the falling of a star
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All romantics meet the same fate some day. Drunk and cynical and boring someone in some dark cafe.
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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 come from pioneer stock, developers of the West, people who went out into the wilderness and set up home with nothing but a pair of oxen.
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Rolling Stone hates me. They must have an editorial policy to do me in for many years.
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I've got 50 different tunings in the guitar.
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I see bodies as individual things.
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Inside your own self pity there you swim, in sinking down to drown her voice still haunts you, and only with your laughter can you win.
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