Joni Mitchell ,quotes

I liked playing in small clubs...

I liked playing in small clubs. I really liked holding the attention of thirty or forty people. I never liked the roar of the big crowd.

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I didn't like the sound of peo...

I didn't like the sound of people gasping at the mere mention of my name. It horrified me.

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I never really wanted to be a ...

I never really wanted to be a star. I didn't like entering a room with all eyes on me. I still don't really like the attention of a birthday party.

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I prefer Christmas, which is e...

I prefer Christmas, which is everybody's holiday. It's just my nature. I don't like to be zeroed in on en masse.

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You can give me 400,000 hostil...

You can give me 400,000 hostile people and I won't even break sweat. If you give me 200 adoring people, my mouth will dry out.

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I don't know how to sell out. ...

I don't know how to sell out. If I tried to sell out I don't think I could.

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I have lost my credibility as ...

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.

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Musically, I would never run d...

Musically, I would never run dry. Any time I sit down to an instrument, I could write a song.

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I try not to steal from myself...

I try not to steal from myself, but the modalities create similarities.

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Musically, I don't think I'd e...

Musically, I don't think I'd ever dry up. I trust my musical invention.

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I like my freedom. I like to d...

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.

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My parents told me I'd point t...

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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He saw my complications and he...

He saw my complications and he mirrored me back simplified, and we laughed how our perfect world would always be denied.

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I'd had a rough childhood....

I'd had a rough childhood.

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I'm a method actress in my son...

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

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I wanted to paint in a folk-ar...

I wanted to paint in a folk-artist-y way. My heroes were Van Gogh, Gauguin, Matisse, and Rembrandt. I think Picasso is about as a modern as I got. But I incorporated things that they rejected as well as movements that happened later.

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Abstract Expressionism was inv...

Abstract Expressionism was invented by New York drunks.

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Augustine, Anne Sexton and Syl...

Augustine, Anne Sexton and Sylvia Plath are confessional writers and all three make me sick. I have nothing in common with them.

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Drag wasn't always countercult...

Drag wasn't always counterculture.

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Inside your own self pity ther...

Inside your own self pity there you swim, in sinking down to drown her voice still haunts you, and only with your laughter can you win.

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