Joni Mitchell Quotes
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I'm a little young for retirement.
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A little lawyer on the tube, he said, its so easy now, anyone can sue.
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I assume there must be some kind of genetic thrust. My two grandmothers were very different, but both of them were frustrated musicians.
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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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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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Bob [Dylan] is not authentic at all. He's a plagiarist, and his name and voice are fake. Everything about Bob is a deception. We are like night and day, he and I.
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Paul Simon started piling up a lot of words, more than the bar could handle, and I stopped!
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Drag wasn't always counterculture.
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Abstract Expressionism was invented by New York drunks.
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When you reach that kind of successful pinnacle, it is the nature of the business and the press and everything that they go about tearing you down.
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They took all the trees and put them in a tree museum.
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Don't it always seem to go, that you don't know what you've got till it's gone.
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I sang in art school, just to get money to smoke.
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I am a woman of heart and mind, looking for affection and respect, a little passion.
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I get the same charge from juxtaposition of colors as I do from juxtaposition of chords.
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When I came to California, it was the mecca of the world. Every young person on the planet wanted to be here.
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Fear is like the wilderland - Stepping stones or sinking sand
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I wish I had a river I could skate away on?
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I came through folk music simply because it was easy to get into it.
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The land of litigation, the courts are like game shows. Take what's behind the curtain the jury cries.
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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.
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Will you take me as I am? Strung out on another man...California, I'm comin' home.
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You've got to shake your fists at lightning now, you've got to roar like forest fire You've got to spread your light like blazes all across the sky They're going to aim the hoses on you, show 'em you won't expire Not till you burn up every passion, not even when you die Come on now, you've got to try, if you're feeling contempt, well then you tell it If you're tired of the silent night, Jesus, well then you yell it Condemned to wires and hammers, strike every chord that you feel That broken trees and elephant ivories conceal
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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.
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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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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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Just before our love got lost you said "I am as constant as a northern star" And I said, constantly in the darkness, Where's that at? If you want me I'll be in the bar.
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My goal as a writer is more to comfort than to disturb.
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America is in a runaway-train position and dragging all the world with it. It's grotesquely mentally ill.
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So many things I would have done, but clouds got in my way.
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