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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. "
Joni Mitchell
Go
Dream
Nobody
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" Everyone I know has attention deficit, and they say it with great pride. It's a bad time to be right. "
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" 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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" 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. "
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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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" No one likes to have less than they had before. That's the nature of the human animal. "
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" Augustine, Anne Sexton and Sylvia Plath are confessional writers and all three make me sick. I have nothing in common with them. "
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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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" Paul Simon started piling up a lot of words, more than the bar could handle, and I stopped! "
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Started
" I see the entire world as Eden, and every time you take an inch of it away, you must do so with respect. "
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" My heart is broken in the face of the stupidity of my species. "
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Broken
Face
" 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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Best
Hungry
" My family could only afford to get me the box of eight Crayola crayons, but I craved the one with all 24 colours. I wanted magenta and turquoise and silver and gold. "
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Box
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" I loved Debussy, Stravinsky, Chopin, Tchaikovsky, anything with romantic melodies, especially the nocturnes. Nietzsche was a hero, especially with 'Thus Spoke Zarathustra.' He gets a bad rap; he's very misunderstood. He's a maker of individuals, and he was a teacher of teachers. "
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Teachers
Romantic
" My goal as a writer is more to comfort than to disturb. "
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Writer
More
" 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. "
Joni Mitchell
Democracy
Say
War
" My individual, psychological descent coincided, ironically, with my ascent into the public eye. "
Joni Mitchell
Eye
Descent
Ascent
" Sorrow is so easy to express and yet so hard to tell. "
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Sorrow
Tell
Hard
" I certainly don't want to be an angry old artist. "
Joni Mitchell
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Angry
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" I always thought the women of song don't get along, and I don't know why that is. "
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Always
Know
Thought
" My name had gone stale, and no matter how progressive I got, it was my time to die. "
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Name
Time
Die
" I'm not a pitiable creature. It's just that I suffer very eloquently. "
Joni Mitchell
Very
Creature
Suffer
" 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 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
" 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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World
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" Drag wasn't always counterculture. "
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" 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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You
Singing
" 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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Theme
Out
" I find a lot of poetry to be narcissistic. "
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" The God of the Old Testament is the depiction of evil. "
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God
Old
" 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. "
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People