Joni Mitchell Quotes

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• No one likes to have less than they had before. That's the nature of the human animal.
• When I began experimenting, people weren't ready for it. Once it's in its second and third generational stages, people can accept it.
• Back then, I didn't have a big organization around me. I was just a kid with a guitar, traveling around. My responsibility basically was to…
• I don't understand why Europeans and South Americans can take more sophistication. Why is it that Americans need to hear their happiness major and their…
• Edith Piaf knocked my socks off when I was 8, but I didn't know what she was singing about.
• Eventually, with success, I started to feel more and more isolated - like I didn't have a community of artists.
• For the first time in my career, I'm working in a fine-arts arena, so I'm finally getting some intelligent reviews.
• I came through folk music simply because it was easy to get into it.
• I conceived in art college at the age of 20, near the end of term.
• I get the same charge from juxtaposition of colors as I do from juxtaposition of chords.
• I hate show business.
• I have one piece of music, since 1997, and I don't see it having lyrics. Where does it go in this world? So I haven't…
• I see the entire world as Eden, and every time you take an inch of it away, you must do so with respect.
• I'm irresponsible to my career in order to paint. Because painting is obsessive. I forget to eat. I forget to sleep.
• If I'm censoring for anyone, it's for my parents. They are very old-fashioned and moral people. They still don't understand me that well.
• My heart is broken in the face of the stupidity of my species.
• My name had gone stale, and no matter how progressive I got, it was my time to die.
• Not to dismiss Gershwin, but Gershwin is the chip; Ellington was the block.
• Paul Simon started piling up a lot of words, more than the bar could handle, and I stopped!
• The considerations of a corporation, especially now, have nothing to do with art or music.

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