QUOTES by Joni Mitchell
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My individual, psychological descent coincided, ironically, with my ascent into the public eye.
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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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I'm a very analytical person, a somewhat introspective person; that's the nature of the work I do.
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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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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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There are things to confess that enrich the world, and things that need not be said.
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My style of songwriting is influenced by cinema. I'm a frustrated filmmaker. A fan once said to me, 'Girl, you make me see pictures in my head!' and I took that as a great compliment. That's exactly my intention.
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What I do is unusual: chordal movements that have never been used before, changing keys and modalities mid-song.
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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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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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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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I don't understand why Europeans and South Americans can take more sophistication. Why is it that Americans need to hear their happiness major and their tragedy minor, and as jazzy as they can handle is a seventh chord? Are they not experiencing complex emotions?
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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.
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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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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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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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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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I loved Debussy, Stravinsky, Chopin, Tchaikovsky, anything with romantic melodies, especially the nocturnes. Nietzsche was a hero, especially with 'Thus Spoke Zarathustra.' He gets a bad rap; he's very misunderstood. He's a maker of individuals, and he was a teacher of teachers.
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At the point where I'm trying to force something and it's not happening, and I'm getting frustrated with, say, writing a poem, I can go and pick up the brushes and start painting. At the point where the painting seems to not be going anywhere, I go and pick up the guitar.
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My family could only afford to get me the box of eight Crayola crayons, but I craved the one with all 24 colours. I wanted magenta and turquoise and silver and gold.
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But I have a tremendous will to live and a tremendous 'joie de vivre,' alternating with irritability.
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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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The Beginning of Survival is my best album. I am very proud of it, and I am surprised at it, too. I thought some of Travelogue was a little heavy, but I don't think this is heavy.
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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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No one likes to have less than they had before. That's the nature of the human animal.
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We have a war dictator who was not elected, he snuck in. so he punishes people that threaten him in any way, or even say something he doesn't like. It has no resemblance to democracy.
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Edith Piaf knocked my socks off when I was 8, but I didn't know what she was singing about.
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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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I heard someone from the music business saying they are no longer looking for talent, they want people with a certain look and a willingness to cooperate.
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Rachmaninoff made a musician out of me. His 'Rhapsody on a Theme by Paganini' was the piece that sent me into raptures. It spoke to me. To me, it was a tender entreaty for the misunderstood.
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