Joni Mitchell Quotes

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• I learned from admiration and osmosis.
• I get the urge for going/But I never seem to go,
• 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…
• I see bodies as individual things,
• To enjoy my music, you need depth and emotionality.
• They'll crucify you for staying the same, and they'll crucify you for change. I'd rather be crucified for changing.
• I'm a painter first, and a musician second.
• Morgellons is constantly morphing. There are times when it's directly attacking the nervous system, as if you're being bitten by fleas and lice. It's all…
• Abstract Expressionism was invented by New York drunks.
• Augustine, Anne Sexton and Sylvia Plath are confessional writers and all three make me sick. I have nothing in common with them.
• Drag wasn't always counterculture.
• Richard got married to a figure skater, and he bought her a dishwasher and a coffee percolator.
• He saw my complications and he mirrored me back simplified, and we laughed how our perfect world would always be denied.
• Heart and humor and humility, he said will lighten up your heavy load.
• I'm drinking champagne, got the head phones up high, can't numb you out.
• Inside your own self pity there you swim, in sinking down to drown her voice still haunts you, and only with your laughter can you…
• You feed it all your woes, the ghostly garden grows.
• He's swept with the broom of contempt and the rooms have an empty ring.
• A little lawyer on the tube, he said, its so easy now, anyone can sue.
• Elusive dreams and vague desires fanned to fiery needs by deadly deeds of falling empires.

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