Joni Mitchell Quotes

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Joni Mitchell

Profession : Musician

Birth : November 7, 1943

I do have this reputation for being a serious person.

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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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People used to say nobody can sing my songs but me - they're too personal.

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I'm a method actress in my songs, which is why it's hard to sing them.

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What I do is unusual: chordal movements that have never been used before, changing keys and modalities mid-song.

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I couldn't see passion as a bad thing.

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I came through folk music simply because it was easy to get into it.

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For the first time in my career, I'm working in a fine-arts arena, so I'm finally getting some intelligent reviews.

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Eventually, with success, I started to feel more and more isolated - like I didn't have a community of artists.

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America is in a runaway-train position and dragging all the world with it. It's grotesquely mentally ill.

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When I began experimenting, people weren't ready for it. Once it's in its second and third generational stages, people can accept it.

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I sing my sorrow, and I paint my joy.

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I get the same charge from juxtaposition of colors as I do from juxtaposition of chords.

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I believe that I am male and I am female.

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I see bodies as individual things.

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I'm a little young for retirement.

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I have always thought of myself as a painter derailed by circumstance.

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I'm irresponsible to my career in order to paint. Because painting is obsessive. I forget to eat. I forget to sleep.

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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 of oxen.

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My parents told me I'd point to a bed of flowers and say 'Pink. Pretty,' before I knew any other words.

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