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" I get the same charge from juxtaposition of colors as I do from juxtaposition of chords. "
Joni Mitchell
Same
Charge
Colors
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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. "
Joni Mitchell
Makes
Nation
Lie
" I think I would go further into fine arts, I think, if I were to continue. "
Joni Mitchell
Fine
Arts
Continue
" What I do is unusual: chordal movements that have never been used before, changing keys and modalities mid-song. "
Joni Mitchell
Before
Changing
Used
" Eventually, with success, I started to feel more and more isolated - like I didn't have a community of artists. "
Joni Mitchell
Like
Community
Feel
" The considerations of a corporation, especially now, have nothing to do with art or music. "
Joni Mitchell
Now
Art
Corporation
" 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. "
Joni Mitchell
You
Street
See
" I couldn't see passion as a bad thing. "
Joni Mitchell
Bad
Passion
See
" I'm irresponsible to my career in order to paint. Because painting is obsessive. I forget to eat. I forget to sleep. "
Joni Mitchell
Paint
Sleep
Painting
" No one likes to have less than they had before. That's the nature of the human animal. "
Joni Mitchell
Animal
Nature
Likes
" My goal as a writer is more to comfort than to disturb. "
Joni Mitchell
Comfort
Writer
More
" Buddy Holly and the early rock 'n' roll was no lighter than the way I play. It's very minimal. "
Joni Mitchell
Rock
Play
Early
" I conceived in art college at the age of 20, near the end of term. "
Joni Mitchell
Near
Conceived
Age
" 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
" Paul Simon started piling up a lot of words, more than the bar could handle, and I stopped! "
Joni Mitchell
Handle
More
Started
" Drag wasn't always counterculture. "
Joni Mitchell
Always
Drag
" Edith Piaf knocked my socks off when I was 8, but I didn't know what she was singing about. "
Joni Mitchell
Singing
She
Off
" 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. "
Joni Mitchell
Moral
Me
People
" Not to dismiss Gershwin, but Gershwin is the chip; Ellington was the block. "
Joni Mitchell
Dismiss
Gershwin
Chip
" Everyone I know has attention deficit, and they say it with great pride. It's a bad time to be right. "
Joni Mitchell
Time
Pride
Attention
" 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
" Nobody understood The Reoccurring Dream, but after September 11, when we were coerced to do a national duty and go out and shop, surely people could begin to see what I was getting at. "
Joni Mitchell
Go
Dream
Nobody
" I hate show business. "
Joni Mitchell
Show Business
Show
Business
" Van Gogh was impulsive. "
Joni Mitchell
Van Gogh
Gogh
Impulsive
" The God of the Old Testament is the depiction of evil. "
Joni Mitchell
Evil
God
Old
" The songwriting was almost like something I did while I was waiting for my daughter to come back. "
Joni Mitchell
Back
Daughter
Songwriting
" I see bodies as individual things. "
Joni Mitchell
Bodies
Individual
I See
" I do have this reputation for being a serious person. "
Joni Mitchell
Being
Person
Serious
" 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
" I'm a Buddhist. "
Joni Mitchell
Buddhist
" 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