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Joni Mitchell
Age: 81
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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you dont know what you got till its gone
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Buddy Holly and the early rock 'n' roll was no lighter than the way I play. It's very minimal.
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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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Lazy reviewers look up other people's reviews and they write the same thing, so you get people writing crap based on crap.
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My style of songwriting is influenced by cinema. I'm a frustrated filmmaker. A fan once said to me, 'Girl, you make me see pictures in my head!' and I took that as a great compliment. That's exactly my intention.
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I find a lot of poetry to be narcissistic.
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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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Morgellons is constantly morphing. There are times when it's directly attacking the nervous system, as if you're being bitten by fleas and lice. It's all in the tissue and it's not a hallucination. It was eating me alive, sucking the juices out. I've been sick all my life.
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There'll be icicles and birthday clothes And sometimes there'll be sorrow
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Abstract Expressionism was invented by New York drunks.
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I'm a painter first, and a musician second.
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They'll crucify you for staying the same, and they'll crucify you for change. I'd rather be crucified for changing.
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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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We're captive on the carousel of time, we can't return we can only look behind.
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Fly silly sea bird, no dreams can possess you, no voices can blame you for sun on your wings.
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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 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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In some ways, my gift for music and writing was born out of tragedy, really, and loss.
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The most important thing is to write in your own blood. I bare intimate feelings because people should know how other people feel.
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