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" Sorrow is so easy to express and yet so hard to tell. "
Joni Mitchell
Sorrow
Tell
Hard
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" 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. "
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" I'd had a rough childhood. "
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Childhood
Had
Rough
" 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
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" I'm a very analytical person, a somewhat introspective person; that's the nature of the work I do. "
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Work
Person
Very
" I sing my sorrow, and I paint my joy. "
Joni Mitchell
Joy
Sorrow
Sing
" I love to dance. "
Joni Mitchell
Dance
I Love
Love
" I can't remember anything I ever wrote. "
Joni Mitchell
Anything
Wrote
Remember
" 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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You
Best
Hungry
" Fame is a series of misunderstandings surrounding a name. "
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Fame
Series
Surrounding
" I do have this reputation for being a serious person. "
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Being
Person
Serious
" I think I would go further into fine arts, I think, if I were to continue. "
Joni Mitchell
Fine
Arts
Continue
" America is in a runaway-train position and dragging all the world with it. It's grotesquely mentally ill. "
Joni Mitchell
World
Position
America
" I don't like to make fluffy little songs, but now I want to make some light songs. "
Joni Mitchell
Light
Like
Want
" The God of the Old Testament is the depiction of evil. "
Joni Mitchell
Evil
God
Old
" My individual, psychological descent coincided, ironically, with my ascent into the public eye. "
Joni Mitchell
Eye
Descent
Ascent
" People used to say nobody can sing my songs but me - they're too personal. "
Joni Mitchell
Personal
Used
People
" I have always thought of myself as a painter derailed by circumstance. "
Joni Mitchell
Thought
Painter
Myself
" There are things to confess that enrich the world, and things that need not be said. "
Joni Mitchell
Enrich
Said
Things
" My parents told me I'd point to a bed of flowers and say 'Pink. Pretty,' before I knew any other words. "
Joni Mitchell
Words
Say
Flowers
" My heart is broken in the face of the stupidity of my species. "
Joni Mitchell
Species
Broken
Face
" 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. "
Joni Mitchell
People
Talent
Music
" But I have a tremendous will to live and a tremendous 'joie de vivre,' alternating with irritability. "
Joni Mitchell
Live
Will
Tremendous
" 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
Lyrics
Music
See
" 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. "
Joni Mitchell
Rock
You
Singing
" I hate show business. "
Joni Mitchell
Show Business
Show
Business
" Not to dismiss Gershwin, but Gershwin is the chip; Ellington was the block. "
Joni Mitchell
Dismiss
Gershwin
Chip
" 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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You
Street
See
" I conceived in art college at the age of 20, near the end of term. "
Joni Mitchell
Near
Conceived
Age
" 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
" I get the same charge from juxtaposition of colors as I do from juxtaposition of chords. "
Joni Mitchell
Same
Charge
Colors