Quote by Joni Mitchell
In some ways, my gift for music and writing was born out of traged

In some ways, my gift for music and writing was born out of tragedy, really, and loss. – 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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Music
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Eventually, with success, I started to feel more and more isolated – like I didnt have a community of artists. – Joni Mitchell

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Success
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I think everything Joni Mitchell did for music was big. – Maynard James Keenan

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What I took back, because of my exposure to the Jewish music of the 30s and the 40s in my upbringing with my father, was that kind of theatrical songwriting. It was always a part of my character. This desire to make people laugh. – Pete Townshend

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Music for me is an emotional thing and it really does make me happy. Its not a tool for me to get fame or see my face in the papers or anything like that. Its about the fact that I really do enjoy it. – Ville Valo

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Music is an agreeable harmony for the honor of God and the permissible delights of the soul. – Johann Sebastian Bach

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He who does not know one thing knows another – African Proverb

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Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind. – Plato

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Take the so-called standard of living. What do most people mean by “living”? They don’t mean living. They mean the latest and closest plural approximation to singular prenatal passivity which science, in its finite but unbounded wisdom, has succeeded in selling their wives. – e.e. cummings, Introduction, Poems, 1954

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The five separate fingers are five independent units. Close them and the fist multiplies strength. This is organization. – James Cash Penney

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