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Joni Mitchell
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“By the time we got to Woodstock / We were half a million strong, / And everywhere was song and celebration, / And I dreamed I saw the bombers / Riding shotgun in the sky, / Turning into butterflies / Above our nation.”
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“I am a woman of heart and mind, looking for affection and respect, a little passion.”
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“In a pure anonymous encounter you find a world alive and full of character. In New York, the street adventures are incredible. There are a thousand stories in a single block. You see the stories in people's faces. You hear the songs immediately. Here, in Los Angeles, there are fewer characters because they are all inside automobiles.”
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“I hang my laundry on the line when I write.”
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“The most important thing is to write in your own blood. I bare intimate feelings because people should know how other people feel.”
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“Sorrow is so easy to express and yet so hard to tell.”
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“I create by feeling rather than by intellectualizing.”
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“Love is a very hard feeling to keep alive. It's a very fragile plant.”
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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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“Happiness is the best face-lift.”
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“They paved paradise / And put up a parking lot.”
Joni Mitchell, Canadian-born U.S. singer, songwriter
(1943)
Full name: Roberta Joan Anderson Mitchell.