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Joni Mitchell


Canadian
November 7, 1943
Musician
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I hate show business.


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I certainly don't want to be an angry old artist.


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Tags: Want Old Artist
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Sorrow is so easy to express and yet so hard to tell.


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Tags: Hard Tell Easy
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Not to dismiss Gershwin, but Gershwin is the chip; Ellington was the block.


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Ira Gershwin, shame on him. I mean, some of the writing.


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Tags: Some Writing Him
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The coming of the kids hasn't come out in my art yet.


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Tags: Out Come Kids
But I have a tremendous will to live and a tremendous 'joie de vivre,' alternating with irritability.
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I believe that I am male and I am female.


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


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Tags: Music Because Get
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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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My name had gone stale, and no matter how progressive I got, it was my time to die.


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Tags: Time Had How
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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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Tags: Very Than Way
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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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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Tags: People Me Very
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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Tags: Me Out His
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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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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Tags: Time Me Just
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.
Joni Mitchell
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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Tags: Good Hope Me