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" 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. "
Joni Mitchell
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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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" Buddy Holly and the early rock 'n' roll was no lighter than the way I play. It's very minimal. "
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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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" To enjoy my music, you need depth and emotionality. "
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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'm not a pitiable creature. It's just that I suffer very eloquently. "
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" Americans have decided to be stupid and shallow since 1980. "
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Decided
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" In some ways, my gift for music and writing was born out of tragedy, really, and loss. "
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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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" I'd had a rough childhood. "
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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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" When you're trying to pass on the best of the stuff you're culling to what should be a hungry culture but you have it diminished... that's kind of disappointing. "
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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. "
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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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Trying
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