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I create by feeling rather than by intellectualizing.

Joni Mitchell

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Joni Mitchell
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: November 7
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Roberta Joan Anderson
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Ira Gershwin, shame on him. I mean, some of the writing.
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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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We have a war dictator who was not elected, he snuck in. so he punishes people that threaten him in any way, or even say something he doesn't like. It has no resemblance to democracy.
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My parents told me I'd point to a bed of flowers and say 'Pink. Pretty,' before I knew any other words.
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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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My name had gone stale, and no matter how progressive I got, it was my time to die.
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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 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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