Joni Mitchell
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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.” -Joni Mitchell
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“Sorrow is so easy to express and yet so hard to tell.” -Joni Mitchell
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“Eventually, with success, I started to feel more and more isolated – like I didn’t have a community of artists.” -Joni Mitchell
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“I see the entire world as Eden, and every time you take an inch of it away, you must do so with respect.” -Joni Mitchell
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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.” -Joni Mitchell
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“I find a lot of poetry to be narcissistic.” -Joni Mitchell
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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.” -Joni Mitchell
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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.” -Joni Mitchell
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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.” -Joni Mitchell
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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?” -Joni Mitchell
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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.” -Joni Mitchell
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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.” -Joni Mitchell
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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.” -Joni Mitchell
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“I see music as fluid architecture.” -Joni Mitchell
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I conceived in art college at the age of 20, near the end of term. – Joni Mitchell
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