Canadian - Musician | November 7, 1943 -
With a painting, you don't have to go back and paint it again.
Joni Mitchell
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There was this mountain village in Russia where my music was getting in on some German radio station. I remember this because music used to get up to Saskatchewan from Texas. Late at night after the local station closed down.
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Ira Gershwin, shame on him. I mean, some of the writing.
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I had made all these rules for myself: I'm not writing social commentary, I'm not writing love songs.
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I certainly don't want to be an angry old artist.
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I conceived in art college at the age of 20, near the end of term.
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The coming of the kids hasn't come out in my art yet.
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I used to be monastic, almost. Now I'm like a Tibetan that has discovered hamburgers and television. I'm catching up on Americana.
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I don't like to make fluffy little songs, but now I want to make some light songs.
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I find a lot of poetry to be narcissistic.
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In terms of fiction, I'd rather go out and have a good time than read a book about someone having a good or bad time.
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White rhythm is waltzes, marches, and the polka. In Africa, rhythm is used for a celebratory groove, but white rhythm doesn't have such an enormous vocabulary of spirits. It's basically militant.
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