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Joni Mitchell
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: November 7
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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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All my battles were with male egos. I’m just looking for equality, not to dominate. But I want to be able to control my vision.
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Abstract Expressionism was invented by New York drunks.
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When the spirit of child's play enters into the creative process, it's a wonderful force and something to be nurtured.
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Ira Gershwin, shame on him. I mean, some of the writing.
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Laughing and crying, you know it's the same release.
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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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You could write a song about some kind of emotional problem you are having, but it would not be a good song, in my eyes, until it went through a period of sensitivity to a moment of clarity. Without that moment of clarity to contribute to the song, it's just complaining.
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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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Land of snap decisions, land of short attention spans, nothing is savored long enough to really understand.
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I paint my joy and I sing my sorrow.
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I am as constant as a northern star
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I never loved a man as far as I could pitch my shoe.
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I'm a very analytical person, a somewhat introspective person that's the nature of the work I do.
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Do you want - do you want - do you want to dance with me baby?
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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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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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I got in before SoHo was SoHo. It was just Little Italy when I was in there. It's still off the touristy track. It's just away from the Saturday action, the crowds and everything. It's too expensive. It's insane. You've got to be a billionaire to live on Manhattan now.
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Yesterday a child came out to wonder Caught a dragonfly inside a jar Fearful when the sky was full of thunder And tearful at the falling of a star
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They paved paradise and put up a parkin lot With a pink hotel, a boutique, and a swingin' hot spot Don't it always seem to go That you don't know what you got till it's gone
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