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" 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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" We managed to put together a compilation that had some creativity to it. In the meantime I was listening to the free radio stations and I noticed that during their war coverage they were playing these songs born out of the Vietnam War that were all critical of the soldiers. "

Joni Mitchell

Listening

Creativity

Together

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

" 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. "

Joni Mitchell

Her

Place

" 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

Good

Bad

" 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. "

" I do have this reputation for being a serious person. "

" 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 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. "

" The considerations of a corporation, especially now, have nothing to do with art or music. "

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

" I'm a little young for retirement. "

" The songwriting was almost like something I did while I was waiting for my daughter to come back. "

" I learned a woman is never an old woman. "

" 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. "

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

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

" The thing that gave me the most pain in life, psychologically, and it gave me tremendous pain psychologically, is man's disrespect for nature. "

" Eventually, with success, I started to feel more and more isolated - like I didn't have a community of artists. "

Joni Mitchell

Community

Feel

" Because I'm so busy and because I think of myself as a painter, I desperately guard the time that I have to paint. And sometimes I'm irresponsible to my career in order to paint. Because painting is obsessive. I forget to eat. I forget to sleep. "

" I always thought the women of song don't get along, and I don't know why that is. "

" I can't remember anything I ever wrote. "

" I'm not a pitiable creature. It's just that I suffer very eloquently. "

" 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. "

" My name had gone stale, and no matter how progressive I got, it was my time to die. "

" 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. "

Joni Mitchell

Moral

People

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

" 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

" Paul Simon started piling up a lot of words, more than the bar could handle, and I stopped! "

" I come from pioneer stock, developers of the West, people who went out into the wilderness and set up home with nothing but a pair of oxen. "