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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. "
Joni Mitchell
Rock
You
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" I'm a Buddhist. "
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" The coming of the kids hasn't come out in my art yet. "
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" Drag wasn't always counterculture. "
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" There are things to confess that enrich the world, and things that need not be said. "
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" The considerations of a corporation, especially now, have nothing to do with art or music. "
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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. "
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" I think I would go further into fine arts, I think, if I were to continue. "
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" I get the same charge from juxtaposition of colors as I do from juxtaposition of chords. "
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" 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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" 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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" You wake up one day and suddenly realize that your youth is behind you, even though you're still young at heart. "
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" 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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Born
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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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Like
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" Not to dismiss Gershwin, but Gershwin is the chip; Ellington was the block. "
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Dismiss
Gershwin
Chip
" 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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Make
Three
" Edith Piaf knocked my socks off when I was 8, but I didn't know what she was singing about. "
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" 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. "
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Looking
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" 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. "
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Good
Childhood
Fight
" I learned a woman is never an old woman. "
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Never
Learned
Old Woman
" I'm irresponsible to my career in order to paint. Because painting is obsessive. I forget to eat. I forget to sleep. "
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Paint
Sleep
Painting
" 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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Pride
Attention
" My goal as a writer is more to comfort than to disturb. "
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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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" The songwriting was almost like something I did while I was waiting for my daughter to come back. "
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" Ira Gershwin, shame on him. I mean, some of the writing. "
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" 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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" I came through folk music simply because it was easy to get into it. "
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