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" I don't like to make fluffy little songs, but now I want to make some light songs. "
Joni Mitchell
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" I always thought the women of song don't get along, and I don't know why that is. "
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" 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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" I can't remember anything I ever wrote. "
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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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" The coming of the kids hasn't come out in my art yet. "
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" I'm a little young for retirement. "
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" I get the same charge from juxtaposition of colors as I do from juxtaposition of chords. "
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" I'm not a pitiable creature. It's just that I suffer very eloquently. "
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" I'd had a rough childhood. "
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" 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. "
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" But I have a tremendous will to live and a tremendous 'joie de vivre,' alternating with irritability. "
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" People used to say nobody can sing my songs but me - they're too personal. "
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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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Good
Childhood
Fight
" 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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" 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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Person
World
Young
" I'm a very analytical person, a somewhat introspective person; that's the nature of the work I do. "
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Work
Person
Very
" 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. "
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Best
World
Think
" Americans have decided to be stupid and shallow since 1980. "
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Stupid
Decided
Shallow
" I have always thought of myself as a painter derailed by circumstance. "
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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
" White rhythm is waltzes, marches, and the polka. In Africa, rhythm is used for a celebratory groove, but white rhythm doesn't have such an enormous vocabulary of spirits. It's basically militant. "
Joni Mitchell
Used
Vocabulary
White
" I've got 50 different tunings in the guitar. "
Joni Mitchell
Guitar
Different
Got
" Drag wasn't always counterculture. "
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Always
Drag
" Buddy Holly and the early rock 'n' roll was no lighter than the way I play. It's very minimal. "
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Rock
Play
Early
" 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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Me
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" I believe that I am male and I am female. "
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I Am
" There are things to confess that enrich the world, and things that need not be said. "
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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 came through folk music simply because it was easy to get into it. "
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