Joni Mitchell Quotes

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• Land of snap decisions, land of short attention spans, nothing is savored long enough to really understand.
• Lord, there's danger in this land, you get witch hunts and wars when church and state hold hands.
• The land of litigation, the courts are like game shows. Take what's behind the curtain the jury cries.
• I don't know who I am but you know, life is for learning.
• Something's lost, but something's gained, in living everyday.
• The pirate he will sink you with a kiss, he'll steal your heart and sail away.
• Some turn to Jesus and some turn to heroin.
• Fly silly sea bird, no dreams can possess you, no voices can blame you for sun on your wings.
• We'll laugh and toast to nothing, and smash our empty glasses down.
• We're captive on the carousel of time, we can't return we can only look behind.
• The bands and the roadies, love 'em and leave 'em. It's pleasure to try 'em, but trouble to keep 'em.
• I could drink a case of you.
• The only thing I have to give to make you smile, to win you with, are all the mornings still to live.
• They used to laugh at me when I refused to ride on all those double decker buses, all because there was no driver on the…
• I met a redneck on a Grecian isle who did the Goat Dance very well.
• Oh, I am a lonely painter / I live in a box of paints...
• With a painting, you don't have to go back and paint it again.
• I have always thought of myself as a painter derailed by circumstance.
• Some get the gravy, some get the gristle.
• I dreamed I saw the bombers riding shot gun in the sky and they were turning into butterflies above our nation.

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