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When the OutKast sound changed and I started producing my own records, I would mirror what I thought that character doing that music would look like. As the sound got a little wilder, freakier and funkier, so did the clothes. Then when the sound got more sophisticated, the clothes changed again.
Andre Benjamin
Tags: Music Like More
Chelsea Morning is a great Joni Mitchell song and I guess I'm partial to her lyrics because they show me a slightly different perspective on life.
Neil Diamond
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You know, I grew up listening to Joni Mitchell.


Maynard James Keenan
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I think Alison Krauss is one of the most amazing singers ever. As a songwriter - this is gonna sound cheesy - I love Randy Newman. And my mom passed on a love of Bob Dylan and Joni Mitchell. At one point I was so into the Indigo Girls, just like I was so into the Dixie Chicks, those female harmonies.
Cam
Tags: Amazing Mom Like
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I think everything Joni Mitchell did for music was big.


Maynard James Keenan
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I certainly don't want to be an angry old artist.


Joni Mitchell
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I was totally romanticizing the idea of Los Angeles when the Doors, Joni Mitchell, and Neil Young were hanging out there.
Lykke Li
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My name had gone stale, and no matter how progressive I got, it was my time to die.


Joni Mitchell
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When I was leaving NBC News to go to CNN, people would say, 'What?! Why would you possibly leave the 'Today Show' to go to cable?' If I would've listened to people, I would've been on a great platform, but I wouldn't have grown as a journalist. So far, most of the steps in my career have been really good.
Soledad O'Brien
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I am multiracial, and I went through different phases - at one point, I listened to Wu-Tang and hip-hop, and then the next year I listened to Joni Mitchell.
Tessa Thompson
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Oh, there's so much ego with men; in their head, they can't possibly think about Tesco's when they are doing Othello. Er, why not? They want to think that they are such geniuses they can't muddy their day with domesticity, and I've got no truck with it whatsoever.
Lesley Manville
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I hate show business.


Joni Mitchell
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The songwriting was almost like something I did while I was waiting for my daughter to come back.


Joni Mitchell
I was raised in Topanga Canyon. It's an eclectic community up in the Santa Monica mountains. A lot of musicians lived there - Joni Mitchell, Neil Young - as well as artists and craftspeople.
Inara George
Tags: Up Lot Well
You can have good writing, but a great actor will make it feel and sound like great writing. You can have great writing, and mediocre actors will make it feel mediocre. Without the actors, you have nothing.
Denis Leary
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Sorrow is so easy to express and yet so hard to tell.


Joni Mitchell
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Not to dismiss Gershwin, but Gershwin is the chip; Ellington was the block.


Joni Mitchell
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Ira Gershwin, shame on him. I mean, some of the writing.


Joni Mitchell
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The coming of the kids hasn't come out in my art yet.


Joni Mitchell
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We obviously would like to get unemployment as low as we possibly can.


Jacob Lew
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