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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. "
Joni Mitchell
Lead
Who
Want
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" I have always thought of myself as a painter derailed by circumstance. "
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" My individual, psychological descent coincided, ironically, with my ascent into the public eye. "
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Eye
Descent
Ascent
" Buddy Holly and the early rock 'n' roll was no lighter than the way I play. It's very minimal. "
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Play
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" The songwriting was almost like something I did while I was waiting for my daughter to come back. "
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Daughter
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" Because I'm so busy and because I think of myself as a painter, I desperately guard the time that I have to paint. And sometimes I'm irresponsible to my career in order to paint. Because painting is obsessive. I forget to eat. I forget to sleep. "
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Sleep
Think
" 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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Art
Organization
" Paul Simon started piling up a lot of words, more than the bar could handle, and I stopped! "
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Handle
More
Started
" The coming of the kids hasn't come out in my art yet. "
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Come
Out
Kids
" No one likes to have less than they had before. That's the nature of the human animal. "
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Animal
Nature
Likes
" People used to say nobody can sing my songs but me - they're too personal. "
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Personal
Used
People
" 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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Misunderstood
Theme
Out
" 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 do have this reputation for being a serious person. "
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Being
Person
Serious
" 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
" I get the same charge from juxtaposition of colors as I do from juxtaposition of chords. "
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Same
Charge
Colors
" The God of the Old Testament is the depiction of evil. "
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Evil
God
Old
" There was this mountain village in Russia where my music was getting in on some German radio station. I remember this because music used to get up to Saskatchewan from Texas. Late at night after the local station closed down. "
Joni Mitchell
Night
Mountain
Texas
" I'm a night owl. "
Joni Mitchell
Night
Owl
" 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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Need
Why
Emotions
" I couldn't see passion as a bad thing. "
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Bad
Passion
See
" I love to dance. "
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Dance
I Love
Love
" 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
" My goal as a writer is more to comfort than to disturb. "
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Comfort
Writer
More
" I certainly don't want to be an angry old artist. "
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Certainly
Angry
Artist
" America is in a runaway-train position and dragging all the world with it. It's grotesquely mentally ill. "
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World
Position
America
" My name had gone stale, and no matter how progressive I got, it was my time to die. "
Joni Mitchell
Name
Time
Die
" I'm a Buddhist. "
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Buddhist
" I think I would go further into fine arts, I think, if I were to continue. "
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Fine
Arts
Continue
" I believe that I am male and I am female. "
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I Believe That
I Believe
I Am
" Eventually, with success, I started to feel more and more isolated - like I didn't have a community of artists. "
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Like
Community
Feel