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" 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

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" I sing my sorrow, and I paint my joy. "

" I learned a woman is never an old woman. "

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" I do have this reputation for being a serious person. "

" When you're trying to pass on the best of the stuff you're culling to what should be a hungry culture but you have it diminished... that's kind of disappointing. "

" An unhappy mother does not raise a happy child. "

" 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. "

" To enjoy my music, you need depth and emotionality. "

" I had made all these rules for myself: I'm not writing social commentary, I'm not writing love songs. "

" No one likes to have less than they had before. That's the nature of the human animal. "

" I don't like being too looked up at or too looked down on. I prefer meeting in the middle to being worshiped or spat out. "

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Out

" 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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Bad

" I can't remember anything I ever wrote. "

" The Beginning of Survival is my best album. I am very proud of it, and I am surprised at it, too. I thought some of Travelogue was a little heavy, but I don't think this is heavy. "

" Fame is a series of misunderstandings surrounding a name. "

" 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. "

" 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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Place

" Drag wasn't always counterculture. "

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" Sorrow is so easy to express and yet so hard to tell. "

" I'm irresponsible to my career in order to paint. Because painting is obsessive. I forget to eat. I forget to sleep. "

" I certainly don't want to be an angry old artist. "

" With a painting, you don't have to go back and paint it again. "

" You have this mounting aggressive ignorance with the rabbit's foot of their particular religion. You don't really have any kind of spiritual law, just a kind of a rabid mental illness. The songs are a little slice of life. "

" Everyone I know has attention deficit, and they say it with great pride. It's a bad time to be right. "

" 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. "

" Ira Gershwin, shame on him. I mean, some of the writing. "