Quote by Joni Mitchell
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

Other quotes by Joni Mitchell

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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good
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You have this mounting aggressive ignorance with the rabbits foot of their particular religion. You dont really have any kind of spiritual law, just a kind of a rabid mental illness. The songs are a little slice of life. – Joni Mitchell

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Religion
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Happiness
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There once was a demographic survey done to determine if money was connected to happiness and Ireland was the only place where this did not turn out to be true. – Fiona Shaw

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The sexes were made for each other, and only in the wise and loving union of the two is the fullness of health and duty and happiness to be expected. – William Hall

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Character is power it makes friends, draws patronage and support and opens the way to wealth, honor and happiness. – John Howe

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Happiness can exist only in acceptance. – George Orwell

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The groves were God’s first temples. – William Cullen Bryant, “A Forest Hymn”

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The trouble with being poor is that it takes up all your time. – Willem de Kooning

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