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Some get the gravy, some get the gristle.

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Joni Mitchell
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: November 7
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Roberta Joan Anderson
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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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We managed to put together a compilation that had some creativity to it. In the meantime I was listening to the free radio stations and I noticed that during their war coverage they were playing these songs born out of the Vietnam War that were all critical of the soldiers.
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I get the urge for going/But I never seem to go.
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We call for the three great stimulants of the exhausted ones, artifice, brutality, and innocence.
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They won't give peace a chance, that's just a dream some of us had
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With a painting, you don't have to go back and paint it again.
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When I came to California, it was the mecca of the world. Every young person on the planet wanted to be here.
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you dont know what you got till its gone
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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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Lord, there's danger in this land, you get witch hunts and wars when church and state hold hands.
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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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I am as constant as a northern star
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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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To enjoy my music, you need depth and emotionality.
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I liked playing in small clubs. I really liked holding the attention of thirty or forty people. I never liked the roar of the big crowd.
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I know my generation - a lot of them, they're getting old now, and they want to think back fondly, they want to kid themselves. A lot of them think, 'Yeah, we were the best.' That's the kiss of death. That's non-growth. And also that's very bad for the world.
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Elusive dreams and vague desires fanned to fiery needs by deadly deeds of falling empires.
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I conceived in art college at the age of 20, near the end of term.
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In some ways, my gift for music and writing was born out of tragedy, really, and loss.
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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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