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" An unhappy mother does not raise a happy child. "
Joni Mitchell
Raise
Unhappy
Child
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" For the first time in my career, I'm working in a fine-arts arena, so I'm finally getting some intelligent reviews. "
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" What I do is unusual: chordal movements that have never been used before, changing keys and modalities mid-song. "
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" Van Gogh was impulsive. "
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Gogh
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" Edith Piaf knocked my socks off when I was 8, but I didn't know what she was singing about. "
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She
Off
" 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
" My goal as a writer is more to comfort than to disturb. "
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Writer
More
" I sing my sorrow, and I paint my joy. "
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Sorrow
Sing
" Eventually, with success, I started to feel more and more isolated - like I didn't have a community of artists. "
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Like
Community
Feel
" When I began experimenting, people weren't ready for it. Once it's in its second and third generational stages, people can accept it. "
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Accept
Once
" With a painting, you don't have to go back and paint it again. "
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You
Painting
Paint
" 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. "
Joni Mitchell
Listening
Creativity
Together
" Buddy Holly and the early rock 'n' roll was no lighter than the way I play. It's very minimal. "
Joni Mitchell
Rock
Play
Early
" 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 couldn't see passion as a bad thing. "
Joni Mitchell
Bad
Passion
See
" 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. "
Joni Mitchell
Eyes
Problem
You
" I certainly don't want to be an angry old artist. "
Joni Mitchell
Certainly
Angry
Artist
" At the point where I'm trying to force something and it's not happening, and I'm getting frustrated with, say, writing a poem, I can go and pick up the brushes and start painting. At the point where the painting seems to not be going anywhere, I go and pick up the guitar. "
Joni Mitchell
Start
Trying
Writing
" I don't like to make fluffy little songs, but now I want to make some light songs. "
Joni Mitchell
Light
Like
Want
" No one likes to have less than they had before. That's the nature of the human animal. "
Joni Mitchell
Animal
Nature
Likes
" You wake up one day and suddenly realize that your youth is behind you, even though you're still young at heart. "
Joni Mitchell
Youth
Heart
Day
" Ira Gershwin, shame on him. I mean, some of the writing. "
Joni Mitchell
Mean
IRA
Him
" I had made all these rules for myself: I'm not writing social commentary, I'm not writing love songs. "
Joni Mitchell
Myself
Love
Writing
" My first four albums covered the usual youth problems - looking for love in all the wrong places - while the next five are basically about being in your 30s. "
Joni Mitchell
Youth
Looking
Wrong
" 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
" You know, Neil Young is singing Rock n' roll will never die, and Neil never rocked and rolled in his life. I mean, he rocked, but he didn't roll. He has got no swing in him. "
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Rock
You
Singing
" I used to be monastic, almost. Now I'm like a Tibetan that has discovered hamburgers and television. I'm catching up on Americana. "
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Almost
Used
Up
" I believe that I am male and I am female. "
Joni Mitchell
I Believe That
I Believe
I Am
" If I'm censoring for anyone, it's for my parents. They are very old-fashioned and moral people. They still don't understand me that well. "
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Moral
Me
People
" Everyone I know has attention deficit, and they say it with great pride. It's a bad time to be right. "
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Time
Pride
Attention
" 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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Need
Why
Emotions