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" 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
Accept
Once
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" I sing my sorrow, and I paint my joy. "
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" I'm not a pitiable creature. It's just that I suffer very eloquently. "
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" Buddy Holly and the early rock 'n' roll was no lighter than the way I play. It's very minimal. "
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" I'd had a rough childhood. "
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" I conceived in art college at the age of 20, near the end of term. "
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" I couldn't see passion as a bad thing. "
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" There are things to confess that enrich the world, and things that need not be said. "
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" My goal as a writer is more to comfort than to disturb. "
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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 don't like to make fluffy little songs, but now I want to make some light songs. "
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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
" 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. "
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" I'm a method actress in my songs, which is why it's hard to sing them. "
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Actress
Hard
" 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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Words
Say
Flowers
" The thing that gave me the most pain in life, psychologically, and it gave me tremendous pain psychologically, is man's disrespect for nature. "
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Life
Nature
Pain
" 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 individual, psychological descent coincided, ironically, with my ascent into the public eye. "
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Eye
Descent
Ascent
" I came through folk music simply because it was easy to get into it. "
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Because
Folk
Get
" I can't remember anything I ever wrote. "
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Anything
Wrote
Remember
" I think I would go further into fine arts, I think, if I were to continue. "
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Fine
Arts
Continue
" I'm a night owl. "
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Owl
" I wanted to paint in a folk-artist-y way. My heroes were Van Gogh, Gauguin, Matisse, and Rembrandt. I think Picasso is about as a modern as I got. But I incorporated things that they rejected as well as movements that happened later. "
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Heroes
Paint
" In some ways, my gift for music and writing was born out of tragedy, really, and loss. "
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Tragedy
Gift
Loss
" 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. "
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Best
World
Think
" I believe that I am male and I am female. "
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I Believe That
I Believe
I Am
" 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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Innovation
Born
Stars
" Ira Gershwin, shame on him. I mean, some of the writing. "
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IRA
Him
" My heart is broken in the face of the stupidity of my species. "
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Species
Broken
Face
" This is a nation that has lost the ability to be self-critical, and that makes a lie out of the freedoms. "
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Nation
Lie