Joni Mitchell Short Quotes

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

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

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I don't know who I am / but you know, life is for learning.

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Do you want - do you want - do you want to dance with me baby?

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

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

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I met a redneck on a Grecian isle who did the Goat Dance very well.

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Won't you stay We'll put on the day And we'll talk in present tenses

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I'm not a pitiable creature. It's just that I suffer very eloquently.

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Love is a very hard feeling to keep alive. It's a very fragile plant.

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

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There'll be icicles and birthday clothes
And sometimes there'll be sorrow

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

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

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Will you take me as I am? Strung out on another man...California, I'm comin' home.

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

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I am a woman of heart and mind, looking for affection and respect, a little passion.

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Any time I make a record it's followed by a painting period. It's good crop rotation.

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

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

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Lord, there's danger in this land.
You get witch-hunts and wars when church and state hold hands.

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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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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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They paved paradise
And put up a parking lot
With a pink hotel, a boutique
and a swinging hot spot.

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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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Secrets and sharing soda,
That's how our time began.
Love is a story told to a friend
It's second hand.

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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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