Joni Mitchell

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All the news of home you read, more about the war and of bloody changes.
- Joni Mitchell
Collection: War
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I was anti-intellectual to the nth. Basically I liked to dance and paint, and that was about it.
- Joni Mitchell
Collection: Intellectual
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I could drink a case of you.
- Joni Mitchell
Collection: Drink
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I like my freedom. I like to do my own grocery shopping. People do recognize you. They are kind of shocked. Some people like it. It makes them feel at ease. It confirms their hopes that you are in fact similar to them.
- Joni Mitchell
Collection: Shopping
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I learned from admiration and osmosis.
- Joni Mitchell
Collection: Osmosis
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Sex sells everything and sex kills.
- Joni Mitchell
Collection: Sex
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I'm not a kiss-and-teller. I never named names.
- Joni Mitchell
Collection: Kissing
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Some get the gravy, some get the gristle.
- Joni Mitchell
Collection: Expression
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A little lawyer on the tube, he said, its so easy now, anyone can sue.
- Joni Mitchell
Collection: Reality
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Everybody's saying hell's the hippest way to go. Well, I don't think so, but I'm gonna take a look around it though.
- Joni Mitchell
Collection: Thinking
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When I was 19 I went to art school. I had six months of teaching myself to play baritone ukulele under my belt so I was sort of a novice folkie... I was singing folk songs at that time.
- Joni Mitchell
Collection: Song
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Woke up, it was a Chelsea morning, and the first thing that I knew there was milk and toast and honey and a bowl of oranges, too.
- Joni Mitchell
Collection: Morning
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Abstract Expressionism was invented by New York drunks.
- Joni Mitchell
Collection: New York
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I create by feeling rather than by intellectualizing.
- Joni Mitchell
Collection: Feelings
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I came upon a child of god, He was walking along the road And I asked him, where are you going And this he told me: "I'm going on down to Yasgur's farm I'm going to join in a rock 'n' roll band I'm going to camp out on the land, I'm going to try an' get my soul free.
- Joni Mitchell
Collection: Children
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Rolling Stone hates me. They must have an editorial policy to do me in for many years.
- Joni Mitchell
Collection: Hate
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Does the moon play only silver when it strums the galaxy?
- Joni Mitchell
Collection: Moon
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I assume there must be some kind of genetic thrust. My two grandmothers were very different, but both of them were frustrated musicians.
- Joni Mitchell
Collection: Grandmother
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Fibers in a variety of colors protrude out of my skin like mushrooms after a rainstorm. They cannot be forensically identified as animal, vegetable or mineral.
- Joni Mitchell
Collection: Animal
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I have lost my credibility as a hit maker because of these side excursions into other branches of music; by not being consistent. Consistency seems to be all-important.
- Joni Mitchell
Collection: Consistency
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Musically, I would never run dry. Any time I sit down to an instrument, I could write a song.
- Joni Mitchell
Collection: Running
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Richard got married to a figure skater, and he bought her a dishwasher and a coffee percolator.
- Joni Mitchell
Collection: Coffee