Canadian - Musician | November 7, 1943 -
Not to dismiss Gershwin, but Gershwin is the chip; Ellington was the block.
Joni Mitchell
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Paul Simon started piling up a lot of words, more than the bar could handle, and I stopped!
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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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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'm a method actress in my songs, which is why it's hard to sing them.
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Eventually, with success, I started to feel more and more isolated - like I didn't have a community of artists.
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To enjoy my music, you need depth and emotionality.
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Van Gogh was impulsive.
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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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I wanted to paint in a folk-artist-y way. My heroes were Van Gogh, Gauguin, Matisse, and Rembrandt. I think Picasso is about as a modern as I got. But I incorporated things that they rejected as well as movements that happened later.
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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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People used to say nobody can sing my songs but me - they're too personal.
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