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" I always thought the women of song don't get along, and I don't know why that is. "
Joni Mitchell
Always
Know
Thought
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" In New York, the street adventures are incredible. There are a thousand stories in a single block. You see the stories in the people's faces. You hear the songs immediately. Here in Los Angeles, there are less characters because they're all inside automobiles. "
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You
Street
See
" I'd had a rough childhood. "
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Childhood
Had
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" 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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" 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. "
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You
Best
Hungry
" I'm a little young for retirement. "
Joni Mitchell
Young
Little
Retirement
" 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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Eyes
Problem
You
" What I do is unusual: chordal movements that have never been used before, changing keys and modalities mid-song. "
Joni Mitchell
Before
Changing
Used
" When I began experimenting, people weren't ready for it. Once it's in its second and third generational stages, people can accept it. "
Joni Mitchell
People
Accept
Once
" My name had gone stale, and no matter how progressive I got, it was my time to die. "
Joni Mitchell
Name
Time
Die
" I see music as fluid architecture. "
Joni Mitchell
See
Music
I See
" My childhood was very difficult. I had every childhood disease and then some, but my parents didn't mollycoddle me. They left me to fight those battles on my own. I guess that was very Canadian, very stoic. But it's good. I had to become a warrior. I had to give up hope and find a substitute for hope that would be far more stable. "
Joni Mitchell
Good
Childhood
Fight
" But I have a tremendous will to live and a tremendous 'joie de vivre,' alternating with irritability. "
Joni Mitchell
Live
Will
Tremendous
" 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. "
Joni Mitchell
Best
Proud
I Am
" I believe that I am male and I am female. "
Joni Mitchell
I Believe That
I Believe
I Am
" People used to say nobody can sing my songs but me - they're too personal. "
Joni Mitchell
Personal
Used
People
" I sing my sorrow, and I paint my joy. "
Joni Mitchell
Joy
Sorrow
Sing
" I conceived in art college at the age of 20, near the end of term. "
Joni Mitchell
Near
Conceived
Age
" 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. "
Joni Mitchell
Rock
You
Singing
" When the world becomes a massive mess with nobody at the helm, it's time for artists to make their mark. "
Joni Mitchell
Time
Nobody
Mess
" 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
" 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. "
Joni Mitchell
Life
Spiritual
Religion
" I certainly don't want to be an angry old artist. "
Joni Mitchell
Certainly
Angry
Artist
" I have one piece of music, since 1997, and I don't see it having lyrics. Where does it go in this world? So I haven't recorded it. "
Joni Mitchell
Lyrics
Music
See
" Not to dismiss Gershwin, but Gershwin is the chip; Ellington was the block. "
Joni Mitchell
Dismiss
Gershwin
Chip
" With a painting, you don't have to go back and paint it again. "
Joni Mitchell
You
Painting
Paint
" I've got 50 different tunings in the guitar. "
Joni Mitchell
Guitar
Different
Got
" 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
" 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
" For the first time in my career, I'm working in a fine-arts arena, so I'm finally getting some intelligent reviews. "
Joni Mitchell
Career
Time
Intelligent
" The considerations of a corporation, especially now, have nothing to do with art or music. "
Joni Mitchell
Now
Art
Corporation