Joni Mitchell
Musician
1943-11-07
Quotes by Joni Mitchell
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In search of love and music my whole life has beenIlluminationCorruptionAnd diving, diving, diving, diving down To pick up on every shiny thing
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We are stardustBillion-year old carbonAnd we've got to get ourselves back to the garden
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you dont know what you got till its gone
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Will you take me as I am? Strung out on another man...California, I'm comin' home.
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We love our lovin'....but not like we love our freedom.
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In search of love and music my whole life has beenIlluminationCorruptionAnd diving, diving, diving, diving down To pick up on every shiny thing
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you dont know what you got till its gone
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Will you take me as I am? Strung out on another man...California, I'm comin' home.
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We love our lovin'....but not like we love our freedom.
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We are stardustBillion-year old carbonAnd we've got to get ourselves back to the garden
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I conceived in art college at the age of 20, near the end of term.
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Edith Piaf knocked my socks off when I was 8, but I didn't know what she was singing about.
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I'm a very analytical person, a somewhat introspective person; that's the nature of the work I do.
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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 tragedy minor, and as jazzy as they can handle is a seventh chord? Are they not experiencing complex emotions?
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My name had gone stale, and no matter how progressive I got, it was my time to die.
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My heart is broken in the face of the stupidity of my species.
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Fame is a series of misunderstandings surrounding a name.
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You know, Neil Young is singing Rock n' roll will never die, and Neil never rocked and rolled in his life. I mean, he rocked, but he didn't roll. He has got no swing in him.
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Sorrow is so easy to express and yet so hard to tell.
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Rachmaninoff made a musician out of me. His 'Rhapsody on a Theme by Paganini' was the piece that sent me into raptures. It spoke to me. To me, it was a tender entreaty for the misunderstood.
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