Joni Mitchell Quotes

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Sorrow is so easy to express and yet so hard to tell.

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Oh it gets so lonely
When you're walking
And the streets are full of strangers

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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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Yesterday a child came out to wonder
Caught a dragonfly inside a jar
Fearful when the sky was full of thunder
And tearful at the falling of a star

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Innocence is drowned in anarchy. The best lack conviction given time to think, and the worst are full of passion without mercy.

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All the news of home you read, more about the war and of bloody changes.

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We call for the three great stimulants of the exhausted ones, artifice, brutality, and innocence.

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Land of snap decisions, land of short attention spans, nothing is savored long enough to really understand.

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Elusive dreams and vague desires fanned to fiery needs by deadly deeds of falling empires.

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Richard got married to a figure skater, and he bought her a dishwasher and a coffee percolator.

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In search of love and music
My whole life has been
Illumination
Corruption
And diving, diving, diving, diving,
Diving down to pick up every shiny thing

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We'll laugh and toast to nothing, and smash our empty glasses down.

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I live in a box of paints
I'm frightened by the devil
And I'm drawn to those ones that ain't afraid

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The only thing I have to give to make you smile, to win you with, are all the mornings still to live.

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Acid, booze, and ass, needles, guns, and grass, lots of laughs.

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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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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.

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All I really, really want our love to do is to bring out the best in me and in you too.

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But you know it's hard to tell When you're in the spell if it's wrong or if it's real But you're bound to lose If you let the blues get you scared to feel

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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 remember the time you told me, you said
"Love is touching souls,"
Surely you've touched mine, cause
Part of you pours out of me
In these lines from time to time.

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I wanna be strong,
I wanna laugh along,
I wanna belong to the living.
Alive, alive, I wanna get up and jive,
Wanna wreck my stockings in some jukebox dive.

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There are things to confess that enrich the world, and things that need not be said.

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In our possessive coupling
So much could not be expressed
So now I'm returning to myself
These things that you and I suppressed.

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Everything comes and goes; pleasure moves on too early and trouble leaves too slow

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Laughing and crying, you know it's the same release.

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You go down to the pick up station
Craving warmth and beauty
You settle for less than fascination
A few drinks later you're not so choosy
When the closing lights strip off the shadows
On this strange new flesh you've found
Clutching the night to you like a fig leaf
You hurry
To the blackness
And the blankets
To lay down an impression
And your loneliness.

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Some are friendly
Some are cutting
Some are watching it from the wings
Some are standing in the centre giving to get something.

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We are stardust,
We are golden,
And we've got to get ourselves
Back to the garden.

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Moons and Junes and Ferris wheels The dizzy dancing way you feel As every fairy tale comes real I've looked at love that way.

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