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We call for the three great stimulants of the exhausted ones, artifice, brutality, and innocence.
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All the news of home you read, more about the war and of bloody changes.
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Rows and flows of angel hair,
And ice cream castles in the air,
And feather canyons ev'rywhere,
I've looked at clouds that way.
But now they only block the sun,
They rain and snow on ev'ryone,
So many things I would have done
But clouds got in my way.
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How does a person create a song? A lot of it is being open to encounter and to be in touch with the miraculous.
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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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Freedom to me is a luxury of being able to follow the path of the heart, to keep the magic in your life. Freedom is necessary for me in order to create, and if I cannot create I don't feel alive.
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I met a redneck on a Grecian isle who did the Goat Dance very well.
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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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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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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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Morgellons is constantly morphing. There are times when it's directly attacking the nervous system, as if you're being bitten by fleas and lice. It's all in the tissue and it's not a hallucination. It was eating me alive, sucking the juices out. I've been sick all my life.
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They paved paradise
And put up a parking lot
With a pink hotel, a boutique
and a swinging hot spot.
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That's one thing that's always, like, been a difference between, like, the performing arts, and being a painter, you know. A painter does a painting, and he paints it, and that's it, you know. He has the joy of creating it, it hangs on a wall, and somebody buys it, and maybe somebody buys it again, or maybe nobody buys it and it sits up in a loft somewhere until he dies. But he never, you know, nobody ever, nobody ever said to Van Gogh, 'Paint a Starry Night again, man!' You know? He painted it and that was it.
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I met a woman She had a mouth like yours She knew your life She knew your devils and your deeds And she said "Go to him, stay with him if you can But be prepared to bleed
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And the seasons they go round and round,
And the painted ponies go up and down,
We're all captive on the carousel of time
We can't return we can only look behind
From where we came
And go 'round and 'round and 'round
In the circle game.
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Just before our love got lost you said "I am as constant as a northern star" And I said, constantly in the darkness, Where's that at? If you want me I'll be in the bar.
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I don't know who I am / but you know, life is for learning.
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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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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.
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I've looked at clouds from both sides now,
From up and down, and still somehow
It's cloud illusions I recall,
I really don't know clouds at all.
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Oh, you're in my blood like holy wine,
You taste so bitter and so sweet
Oh I could drink a case of you, darling
And I would still be on my feet
I would still be on my feet.
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But now it's just another show, you leave em laughing when you go. And if you care, don't let them know, don't give yourself away.
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Tears and fears and feeling proud,
To say "I love you" right out loud,
Dreams and schemes and circus crowds,
I've looked at life that way.
But now old friends are acting strange
They shake their heads, they say I've changed
Well something's lost, but something's gained
In living ev'ry day.
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I've looked at love from both sides now
From give and take, and still somehow,
It's love's illusions I recall
I really don't know love at all.
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I was demanding of myself a deeper and greater honesty, more and more revelation in my work in order to give it back to the people where it goes into their lives and nourishes them and changes their direction and makes light bulbs go off in their head and makes them feel. And it isn't vague, it strikes against the very nerves of their life and in order to do that you have to strike against the very nerves of your own.
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Born:
November 7, 1943
(age 80)
Bio:
Roberta Joan "Joni" Mitchell is a Canadian singer-songwriter and painter. Mitchell's work is highly respected by critics, and she has deeply influenced fellow musicians in a diverse range of genres.
Known for:
Both Sides Now (2000)
Hejira (1976)
Court and Spark (1974)
Clouds (1969)
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