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With a painting, you don't have to go back and paint it again.
Joni Mitchell
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Joni Mitchell
Age: 80
Born: 1943
Born: November 7
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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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We'll laugh and toast to nothing, and smash our empty glasses down.
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An unhappy mother does not raise a happy child.
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I think I would go further into fine arts, I think, if I were to continue.
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My family could only afford to get me the box of eight Crayola crayons, but I craved the one with all 24 colours. I wanted magenta and turquoise and silver and gold.
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Applause, applause, life is our cause.
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Just before our love got lost you said I am as constant as a northern star And I said, constantly in the darkness, Where's that at? If you want me I'll be in the bar.
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I have always thought of myself as a painter derailed by circumstance.
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You have this mounting aggressive ignorance with the rabbit's foot of their particular religion. You don't really have any kind of spiritual law, just a kind of a rabid mental illness. The songs are a little slice of life.
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My name had gone stale, and no matter how progressive I got, it was my time to die.
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