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" I come from pioneer stock, developers of the West, people who went out into the wilderness and set up home with nothing but a pair of oxen. "
Joni Mitchell
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" Eventually, with success, I started to feel more and more isolated - like I didn't have a community of artists. "
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" I love to dance. "
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" America is in a runaway-train position and dragging all the world with it. It's grotesquely mentally ill. "
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" I certainly don't want to be an angry old artist. "
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" 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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" I'm not a pitiable creature. It's just that I suffer very eloquently. "
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" We have a war dictator who was not elected, he snuck in. so he punishes people that threaten him in any way, or even say something he doesn't like. It has no resemblance to democracy. "
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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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" I'm a little young for retirement. "
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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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" I wanted to paint in a folk-artist-y way. My heroes were Van Gogh, Gauguin, Matisse, and Rembrandt. I think Picasso is about as a modern as I got. But I incorporated things that they rejected as well as movements that happened later. "
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Heroes
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" When the world becomes a massive mess with nobody at the helm, it's time for artists to make their mark. "
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Nobody
Mess
" An unhappy mother does not raise a happy child. "
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" I sing my sorrow, and I paint my joy. "
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" It's in my stars to invent; I was born on Madame Curie's birthday. I have this need for originals, for innovation. That's why I like Charlie Parker. "
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Born
Stars
" I came through folk music simply because it was easy to get into it. "
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Get
" 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. "
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Music
See
" My style of songwriting is influenced by cinema. I'm a frustrated filmmaker. A fan once said to me, 'Girl, you make me see pictures in my head!' and I took that as a great compliment. That's exactly my intention. "
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" When I came to California, it was the mecca of the world. Every young person on the planet wanted to be here. "
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World
Young
" 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 have always thought of myself as a painter derailed by circumstance. "
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Painter
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" 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. "
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Start
Trying
Writing
" My individual, psychological descent coincided, ironically, with my ascent into the public eye. "
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Eye
Descent
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" I'm a Buddhist. "
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" This is a nation that has lost the ability to be self-critical, and that makes a lie out of the freedoms. "
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Nation
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" My family could only afford to get me the box of eight Crayola crayons, but I craved the one with all 24 colours. I wanted magenta and turquoise and silver and gold. "
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" Ira Gershwin, shame on him. I mean, some of the writing. "
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" 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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Up
Out
" 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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