Canadian - Musician | November 7, 1943 -
My parents told me I'd point to a bed of flowers and say 'Pink. Pretty,' before I knew any other words.
Joni Mitchell
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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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I see the entire world as Eden, and every time you take an inch of it away, you must do so with respect.
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There are things to confess that enrich the world, and things that need not be said.
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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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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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An unhappy mother does not raise a happy child.
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I see music as fluid architecture.
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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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My name had gone stale, and no matter how progressive I got, it was my time to die.
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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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I think I would go further into fine arts, I think, if I were to continue.
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