Quote by Joni Mitchell
You could write a song about some kind of emotional problem you ar

You could write a song about some kind of emotional problem you are having, but it would not be a good song, in my eyes, until it went through a period of sensitivity to a moment of clarity. Without that moment of clarity to contribute to the song, its just complaining. – Joni Mitchell

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No one likes to have less than they had before. Thats the nature of the human animal. – Joni Mitchell

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There was this mountain village in Russia where my music was getting in on some German radio station. I remember this because music used to get up to Saskatchewan from Texas. Late at night after the local station closed down. – Joni Mitchell

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I dont understand why Europeans and South Americans can take more sophistication. Why is it that Americans need to hear their happiness major and their tragedy minor, and as jazzy as they can handle is a seventh chord? Are they not experiencing complex emotions? – Joni Mitchell

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Despite everything, I believe that people are really good at heart. – Anne Frank

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The humblest individual exerts some influence, either for good or evil, upon others. – Henry Ward Beecher

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I used to work in a funeral home to feel good about myself, just the fact that I was breathing. – Chuck Palahniuk

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Let me give you a definition of ethics: It is good to maintain and further life it is bad to damage and destroy life. – Albert Schweitzer

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