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" I love to dance. "
Joni Mitchell
Dance
I Love
Love
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" What I do is unusual: chordal movements that have never been used before, changing keys and modalities mid-song. "
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" I hate show business. "
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" The considerations of a corporation, especially now, have nothing to do with art or music. "
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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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" I have always thought of myself as a painter derailed by circumstance. "
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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 believe that I am male and I am female. "
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" 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. "
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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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" 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
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Feel
" I think I would go further into fine arts, I think, if I were to continue. "
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Fine
Arts
Continue
" 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
" I see bodies as individual things. "
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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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Born
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" I find a lot of poetry to be narcissistic. "
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Narcissistic
Lot
" 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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Youth
Heart
Day
" The God of the Old Testament is the depiction of evil. "
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Evil
God
Old
" I came through folk music simply because it was easy to get into it. "
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Because
Folk
Get
" I'm a little young for retirement. "
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Young
Little
Retirement
" I sing my sorrow, and I paint my joy. "
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Sorrow
Sing
" You know, Neil Young is singing Rock n' roll will never die, and Neil never rocked and rolled in his life. I mean, he rocked, but he didn't roll. He has got no swing in him. "
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Rock
You
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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. "
Joni Mitchell
Start
Trying
Writing
" 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. "
Joni Mitchell
Best
World
Think
" People used to say nobody can sing my songs but me - they're too personal. "
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Personal
Used
People
" 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. "
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Best
Proud
I Am
" The coming of the kids hasn't come out in my art yet. "
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Out
Kids
" I couldn't see passion as a bad thing. "
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" My parents told me I'd point to a bed of flowers and say 'Pink. Pretty,' before I knew any other words. "
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Say
Flowers
" 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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" Not to dismiss Gershwin, but Gershwin is the chip; Ellington was the block. "
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Dismiss
Gershwin
Chip