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You know, I grew up listening to Joni Mitchell.


Maynard James Keenan
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Why would I want to sound like Joni Mitchell? I've got Joni Mitchell records, and they're great, and I couldn't possibly be that good.
Ben Folds
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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
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I came through folk music simply because it was easy to get into it.


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 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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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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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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I hate show business.


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
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With my little band, I did everything they did with a big band. I made the blues jump.


Louis Jordan
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I certainly don't want to be an angry old artist.


Joni Mitchell
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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
Because I'm so busy and because I think of myself as a painter, I desperately guard the time that I have to paint. And sometimes I'm irresponsible to my career in order to paint. Because painting is obsessive. I forget to eat. I forget to sleep.
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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Hey, I think it's easy for guys to hit .300 and stay in the big leagues. Hit .200 and try to stick around as long as I did; I think it's a much greater accomplishment. That's hard.
Bob Uecker
I think I'd be pretty star struck over John Mayer. I'm a big fan of his music, and I think he's great.
Sterling Knight
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But I have a tremendous will to live and a tremendous 'joie de vivre,' alternating with irritability.
Joni Mitchell