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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. "
Joni Mitchell
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" I think I would go further into fine arts, I think, if I were to continue. "
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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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" My heart is broken in the face of the stupidity of my species. "
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" My name had gone stale, and no matter how progressive I got, it was my time to die. "
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" I'm a method actress in my songs, which is why it's hard to sing them. "
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" Buddy Holly and the early rock 'n' roll was no lighter than the way I play. It's very minimal. "
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" I've got 50 different tunings in the guitar. "
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" Rachmaninoff made a musician out of me. His 'Rhapsody on a Theme by Paganini' was the piece that sent me into raptures. It spoke to me. To me, it was a tender entreaty for the misunderstood. "
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" 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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" 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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" I believe that I am male and I am female. "
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" 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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" 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 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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" 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. "
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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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" My life came down to being a granny and watching a lot of television. "
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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 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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" Drag wasn't always counterculture. "
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" You wake up one day and suddenly realize that your youth is behind you, even though you're still young at heart. "
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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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" Sorrow is so easy to express and yet so hard to tell. "
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" An unhappy mother does not raise a happy child. "
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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 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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" No one likes to have less than they had before. That's the nature of the human animal. "
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" 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. "
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