Joni Mitchell's Quote - I dont understand why Europeans and South Americans can take more

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I dont understand why Europeans and South Americans can take more

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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I came through folk music simply because it was easy to get into it. – Joni Mitchell

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In some ways, my gift for music and writing was born out of tragedy, really, and loss. – Joni Mitchell

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We managed to put together a compilation that had some creativity to it. In the meantime I was listening to the free radio stations and I noticed that during their war coverage they were playing these songs born out of the Vietnam War that were all critical of the soldiers. – Joni Mitchell

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Happiness does not lie in happiness, but in the achievement of it. – Fyodor Dostoevsky

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The secret of happiness is this: let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather than hostile. – Bertrand Russell

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There is something curiously boring about somebody elses happiness. – Aldous Huxley

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The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom. – Arthur Schopenhauer

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