Joni Mitchell Quotes

Buddy Holly and the early rock 'n' roll was no lighter than the way I play. It's very minimal. 
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Everyone I know has attention deficit, and they say it with great pride. It's a bad time to he right. 
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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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I hate show business. 
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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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I learned a woman is never an old woman. 
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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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The more decadent a culture gets, the more they have a need for what they don't have at all, which is innocence, so you end up with kiddie porn and a perverse obsession with youth. 
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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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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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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 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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