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" I'm a little young for retirement. "
Joni Mitchell
Young
Little
Retirement
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" My style of songwriting is influenced by cinema. I'm a frustrated filmmaker. A fan once said to me, 'Girl, you make me see pictures in my head!' and I took that as a great compliment. That's exactly my intention. "
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" I'm a night owl. "
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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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" For the first time in my career, I'm working in a fine-arts arena, so I'm finally getting some intelligent reviews. "
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" There are things to confess that enrich the world, and things that need not be said. "
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" To enjoy my music, you need depth and emotionality. "
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" You could write a song about some kind of emotional problem you are having, but it would not be a good song, in my eyes, until it went through a period of sensitivity to a moment of clarity. Without that moment of clarity to contribute to the song, it's just complaining. "
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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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" Sorrow is so easy to express and yet so hard to tell. "
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Tell
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" I used to be monastic, almost. Now I'm like a Tibetan that has discovered hamburgers and television. I'm catching up on Americana. "
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Used
Up
" 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
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" I've got 50 different tunings in the guitar. "
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Different
Got
" 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
Stars
" We have a war dictator who was not elected, he snuck in. so he punishes people that threaten him in any way, or even say something he doesn't like. It has no resemblance to democracy. "
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Democracy
Say
War
" My name had gone stale, and no matter how progressive I got, it was my time to die. "
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Time
Die
" The coming of the kids hasn't come out in my art yet. "
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Come
Out
Kids
" I thrive on change. That's probably why my chord changes are weird, because chords depict emotions. They'll be going along on one key and I'll drop off a cliff, and suddenly they will go into a whole other key signature. That will drive some people crazy, but that's how my life is. "
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Life
Change
My Life
" My goal as a writer is more to comfort than to disturb. "
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Writer
More
" The considerations of a corporation, especially now, have nothing to do with art or music. "
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Now
Art
Corporation
" 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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People
Accept
Once
" Not to dismiss Gershwin, but Gershwin is the chip; Ellington was the block. "
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Dismiss
Gershwin
Chip
" 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
" Edith Piaf knocked my socks off when I was 8, but I didn't know what she was singing about. "
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Singing
She
Off
" An unhappy mother does not raise a happy child. "
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Raise
Unhappy
Child
" I lost my daughter at 21. I had to give her up because I was broke, no place to take her, no money to take her. That was very traumatic. "
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" 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. "
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Spiritual
Religion
" I have always thought of myself as a painter derailed by circumstance. "
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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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Childhood
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" I certainly don't want to be an angry old artist. "
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Angry
Artist
" Van Gogh was impulsive. "
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Gogh
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