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Joni Mitchell

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This is a nation that has lost the ability to be self-critical, and that makes a lie out of the freedoms.


— Joni Mitchell


#freedoms #lie #lost #makes #nation

To enjoy my music, you need depth and emotionality.


— Joni Mitchell


#enjoy #music #need #you

Van Gogh was impulsive.


— Joni Mitchell


#impulsive #van #van gogh

What I do is unusual: chordal movements that have never been used before, changing keys and modalities mid-song.


— Joni Mitchell


#before #changing #i #i do #keys

When I began experimenting, people weren't ready for it. Once it's in its second and third generational stages, people can accept it.


— Joni Mitchell


#began #experimenting #generational #i #once

When I came to California, it was the mecca of the world. Every young person on the planet wanted to be here.


— Joni Mitchell


#came #every #here #i #i came

When the world becomes a massive mess with nobody at the helm, it's time for artists to make their mark.


— Joni Mitchell


#becomes #helm #make #mark #massive

When you're trying to pass on the best of the stuff you're culling to what should be a hungry culture but you have it diminished... that's kind of disappointing.


— Joni Mitchell


#culture #diminished #disappointing #hungry #kind

White rhythm is waltzes, marches, and the polka. In Africa, rhythm is used for a celebratory groove, but white rhythm doesn't have such an enormous vocabulary of spirits. It's basically militant.


— Joni Mitchell


#basically #enormous #groove #marches #militant

Sorrow is so easy to express and yet so hard to tell.


— Joni Mitchell


#easy #express #hard #sorrow #tell






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As Joni Mitchell added new folk songs to her repertoire Joni Mitchell began to devise dozens of alternative tunings that allowed her to play each song. In the United Kingdom the album premiered at No. Layered atmospheric compositions such as "Overture / Cotton Avenue" featured more improvisatory collaboration while "Paprika Plains" was a 16-minute epic that stretched the boundaries of pop owing more to Mitchell's memories of childhood in Canada and her study of classical music.

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Mitchell has deeply influenced fellow musicians in a diverse range of genres and her work is highly respected by critics. In the interim Mitchell has turned again toward pop embraced electronic music and engaged in political protest.

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