Joni Mitchell Quotes

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• She'll prophesy your death. She won't say when. Death
• They took all the trees and put them in a tree museum. All
• Sorrow is so easy to express and yet so hard to tell. Easy
• You could write a song about some kind of emotional problem you are having, but it would not be a good song, in my eyes,… Clarity
• Americans have decided to be stupid and shallow since 1980. American
• An unhappy mother does not raise a happy child. Child
• There are things to confess that enrich the world, and things that need not be said. Confess
• My individual, psychological descent coincided, ironically, with my ascent into the public eye. Ascent
• America is in a runaway-train position and dragging all the world with it. It's grotesquely mentally ill. All
• I had made all these rules for myself: I'm not writing social commentary, I'm not writing love songs. All
• I see music as fluid architecture. Architecture
• I'm a little young for retirement. Inspirational
• The thing that gave me the most pain in life, psychologically, and it gave me tremendous pain psychologically, is man's disrespect for nature. Disrespect
• We managed to put together a compilation that had some creativity to it. In the meantime I was listening to the free radio stations and… All
• Buddy Holly and the early rock 'n' roll was no lighter than the way I play. It's very minimal. Buddy
• Everyone I know has attention deficit, and they say it with great pride. It's a bad time to be right. Attention
• I come from pioneer stock, developers of the West, people who went out into the wilderness and set up home with nothing but a pair… Developers
• I do have this reputation for being a serious person. Inspirational
• I used to be monastic, almost. Now I'm like a Tibetan that has discovered hamburgers and television. I'm catching up on Americana. Almost Now
• I'm a very analytical person, a somewhat introspective person; that's the nature of the work I do. Analytical

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