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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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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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Happiness
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Joni Mitchell
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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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good
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Joni Mitchell
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I think maybe because of the kind of music I sing, people want to believe youre a diva. They cant believe after eight years, and eight albums, youre still relatively sane. I feel like they almost want me to throw something at somebody. – Katherine Jenkins

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I wish Frank Sinatra would just shut up and sing. – Lauren Bacall

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Today, music heralds… the establishment of a society of repetition in which nothing will happen anymore. – Jacques Attali

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City people live the city. We live in L.A., New York, we live in places where its chaotic and you never know whats gonna happen. And thats the music – you never know whats gonna happen. – Alice Cooper

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