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

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The thing that gave me the most pain in life, psychologically, and it gave me tremendous pain psychologically, is mans disrespect for nature. – Joni Mitchell

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Nature
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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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I am deeply grateful for the concern of all those who constantly prayed for my happiness. – Princess Margaret

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Crying is cleansing. Theres a reason for tears, happiness or sadness. – Dionne Warwick

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The only way to avoid being miserable is not to have enough leisure to wonder whether you are happy or not. – George Bernard Shaw

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The older I get, the more I see that there really arent huge zeniths of happiness or a huge abyss of darkness as much as there used to be. I tend to walk a middle ground. – Paula Cole

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Excellence is not a skill. It is an attitude. – Ralph Marston

Us investigators who went out into the field were faced on occasion with a lot of anger, by people saying why has it taken you five or six year to come and see me? – Tony Greig

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