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" America is in a runaway-train position and dragging all the world with it. It's grotesquely mentally ill. "
Joni Mitchell
World
Position
America
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" The thing that gave me the most pain in life, psychologically, and it gave me tremendous pain psychologically, is man's disrespect for nature. "
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" I don't understand why Europeans and South Americans can take more sophistication. Why is it that Americans need to hear their happiness major and their tragedy minor, and as jazzy as they can handle is a seventh chord? Are they not experiencing complex emotions? "
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" I find a lot of poetry to be narcissistic. "
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Lot
" I have an aversion to being mislabeled. Here's a label I'd accept: I'm an 'individual.' I'm someone who can't follow, and doesn't want to lead. "
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" In terms of fiction, I'd rather go out and have a good time than read a book about someone having a good or bad time. "
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" I'm not a pitiable creature. It's just that I suffer very eloquently. "
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Creature
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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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Gift
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" I loved Debussy, Stravinsky, Chopin, Tchaikovsky, anything with romantic melodies, especially the nocturnes. Nietzsche was a hero, especially with 'Thus Spoke Zarathustra.' He gets a bad rap; he's very misunderstood. He's a maker of individuals, and he was a teacher of teachers. "
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Teachers
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" There was this mountain village in Russia where my music was getting in on some German radio station. I remember this because music used to get up to Saskatchewan from Texas. Late at night after the local station closed down. "
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Night
Mountain
Texas
" 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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You
" I see the entire world as Eden, and every time you take an inch of it away, you must do so with respect. "
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I See
You
World
" I couldn't see passion as a bad thing. "
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Passion
See
" My goal as a writer is more to comfort than to disturb. "
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Writer
More
" 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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Listening
Creativity
Together
" Ira Gershwin, shame on him. I mean, some of the writing. "
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Mean
IRA
Him
" My individual, psychological descent coincided, ironically, with my ascent into the public eye. "
Joni Mitchell
Eye
Descent
Ascent
" I lost my daughter at 21. I had to give her up because I was broke, no place to take her, no money to take her. That was very traumatic. "
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Her
Place
Up
" I don't like to make fluffy little songs, but now I want to make some light songs. "
Joni Mitchell
Light
Like
Want
" This is a nation that has lost the ability to be self-critical, and that makes a lie out of the freedoms. "
Joni Mitchell
Makes
Nation
Lie
" I learned a woman is never an old woman. "
Joni Mitchell
Never
Learned
Old Woman
" I conceived in art college at the age of 20, near the end of term. "
Joni Mitchell
Near
Conceived
Age
" I see bodies as individual things. "
Joni Mitchell
Bodies
Individual
I See
" Americans have decided to be stupid and shallow since 1980. "
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Stupid
Decided
Shallow
" The considerations of a corporation, especially now, have nothing to do with art or music. "
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Now
Art
Corporation
" The songwriting was almost like something I did while I was waiting for my daughter to come back. "
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Back
Daughter
Songwriting
" I heard someone from the music business saying they are no longer looking for talent, they want people with a certain look and a willingness to cooperate. "
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People
Talent
Music
" Back then, I didn't have a big organization around me. I was just a kid with a guitar, traveling around. My responsibility basically was to the art, and I had extra time on my hands. There is no extra time now. There isn't enough time. "
Joni Mitchell
Time
Art
Organization
" The coming of the kids hasn't come out in my art yet. "
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Come
Out
Kids
" People used to say nobody can sing my songs but me - they're too personal. "
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Personal
Used
People
" I'm a little young for retirement. "
Joni Mitchell
Young
Little
Retirement