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Some turn to Jesus and some turn to heroin.

Joni Mitchell

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Joni Mitchell
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: November 7
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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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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'm your biggest fan, California, I'm coming home
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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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you dont know what you got till its gone
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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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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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We're captive on the carousel of time, we can't return we can only look behind.
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Once I got the open tunings for some reason, I began to get the harmonic sophistication that I heard that my musical fountain inside was excited by. Once I got some interesting chords to play with, my writing began to come.
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I wish I had a river I could skate away on?
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I like my freedom. I like to do my own grocery shopping. People do recognize you. They are kind of shocked. Some people like it. It makes them feel at ease. It confirms their hopes that you are in fact similar to them.
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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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Unlike some of my peers, I haven't really hit a writer's block. When I hit a block I just paint, which is an old crop rotation trick.
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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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My childhood was very difficult. I had every childhood disease and then some, but my parents didnt mollycoddle me. They left me to fight those battles on my own. I guess that was very Canadian, very stoic. But its good. I had to become a warrior. I had to give up hope and find a substitute for hope that would be far more stable.
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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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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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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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No one likes to have less than they had before. That's the nature of the human animal.
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