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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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Joni Mitchell
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: November 7
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Roberta Joan Anderson
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