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" 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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" In terms of fiction, I'd rather go out and have a good time than read a book about someone having a good or bad time. "

Joni Mitchell

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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. "

" Americans have decided to be stupid and shallow since 1980. "

" I had made all these rules for myself: I'm not writing social commentary, I'm not writing love songs. "

" 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? "

" I came through folk music simply because it was easy to get into it. "

" Not to dismiss Gershwin, but Gershwin is the chip; Ellington was the block. "

" 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. "

" There are things to confess that enrich the world, and things that need not be said. "

" Edith Piaf knocked my socks off when I was 8, but I didn't know what she was singing about. "

" I believe that I am male and I am female. "

" I'm a little young for retirement. "

" 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. "

Joni Mitchell

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Out

" 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. "

" I've got 50 different tunings in the guitar. "

" You wake up one day and suddenly realize that your youth is behind you, even though you're still young at heart. "

" Drag wasn't always counterculture. "

Joni Mitchell

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Drag

" 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. "

" When the world becomes a massive mess with nobody at the helm, it's time for artists to make their mark. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Buddy Holly and the early rock 'n' roll was no lighter than the way I play. It's very minimal. "

" 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. "

" When I began experimenting, people weren't ready for it. Once it's in its second and third generational stages, people can accept it. "

Joni Mitchell

People

Once

" Sorrow is so easy to express and yet so hard to tell. "

" I used to be monastic, almost. Now I'm like a Tibetan that has discovered hamburgers and television. I'm catching up on Americana. "

Joni Mitchell

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Used

" My individual, psychological descent coincided, ironically, with my ascent into the public eye. "

" Everyone I know has attention deficit, and they say it with great pride. It's a bad time to be right. "

" I conceived in art college at the age of 20, near the end of term. "

" Fame is a series of misunderstandings surrounding a name. "