Joni Mitchell Quotes

• Ira Gershwin, shame on him. I mean, some of the writing.

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• I’ve got 50 different tunings in the guitar.

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• I think I would go further into fine arts, I think, if I were to continue.

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• I learned a woman is never an old woman.

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• 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 recorded it.

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• I hate show business.

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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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• I can’t remember anything I ever wrote.

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• Everyone I know has attention deficit, and they say it with great pride. It’s a bad time to be right.

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• Buddy Holly and the early rock ‘n’ roll was no lighter than the way I play. It’s very minimal.

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• 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 the art, and I had extra time on my hands. There is no extra time now. There isn’t enough time.

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• At the point where I’m trying to force something and it’s not happening, and I’m getting frustrated with, say, writing a poem, I can go and pick up the brushes and start painting. At the point where the painting seems to not be going anywhere, I go and pick up the guitar.

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• I’ve looked at life from both sides now
  From win and lose and still somehow
  It’s life’s illusions I recall
  I really don’t know life at all.

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Joni Mitchell (33)

Birth:	7th November, 1943
Nationality:	Canadian
Profession:	Director, Lyricist, Musician, Painter, Singer

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