QUOTES by Joni Mitchell
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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 always thought the women of song don't get along, and I don't know why that is.
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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.
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Eventually, with success, I started to feel more and more isolated - like I didn't have a community of artists.
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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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For the first time in my career, I'm working in a fine-arts arena, so I'm finally getting some intelligent reviews.
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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.
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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.
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The considerations of a corporation, especially now, have nothing to do with art or music.
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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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I don't like being too looked up at or too looked down on. I prefer meeting in the middle to being worshiped or spat out.
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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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I used to be monastic, almost. Now I'm like a Tibetan that has discovered hamburgers and television. I'm catching up on Americana.
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I had made all these rules for myself: I'm not writing social commentary, I'm not writing love songs.
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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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Paul Simon started piling up a lot of words, more than the bar could handle, and I stopped!
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Not to dismiss Gershwin, but Gershwin is the chip; Ellington was the block.
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There was this mountain village in Russia where my music was getting in on some German radio station. I remember this because music used to get up to Saskatchewan from Texas. Late at night after the local station closed down.
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Nobody understood The Reoccurring Dream, but after September 11, when we were coerced to do a national duty and go out and shop, surely people could begin to see what I was getting at.
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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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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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In some ways, my gift for music and writing was born out of tragedy, really, and loss.
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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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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.
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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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White rhythm is waltzes, marches, and the polka. In Africa, rhythm is used for a celebratory groove, but white rhythm doesn't have such an enormous vocabulary of spirits. It's basically militant.
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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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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.
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My name had gone stale, and no matter how progressive I got, it was my time to die.
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