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Joni Mitchell Quotes: I had made all these rules for myself: I'm not writing social commentary, I'm not writing love songs.
         

I had made all these rules for myself: I'm not writing social commentary, I'm not writing love songs.


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We're captive on the carousel of time, we can't return we can only look behind.



Keep a good heart. That's the most important thing in life. It's not how much money you make or what you can acquire. The art of it is to keep a good heart.

Keep a good heart. That's the most important thing in life. It's not how much money you make or what you can acquire. The art of it is to keep a good heart.



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

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



Chase away the demons, and they will take the angels with them.

Chase away the demons, and they will take the angels with them.



We are stardust, we are golden and we've got to get ourselves back to the garden.

We are stardust, we are golden and we've got to get ourselves back to the garden.



Freedom to me is a luxury of being able to follow the path of the heart, to keep the magic in your life. Freedom is necessary for me in order to create, and if I cannot create I don’t feel alive.

Freedom to me is a luxury of being able to follow the path of the heart, to keep the magic in your life. Freedom is necessary for me in order to create, and if I cannot create I don’t feel alive.



Depression can be the sand that makes the pearl. Most of my best work came out of it.

Depression can be the sand that makes the pearl. Most of my best work came out of it.



Moons and Junes and Ferris wheels The dizzy dancing way you feel As every fairy tale comes real I've looked at love that way.

Moons and Junes and Ferris wheels The dizzy dancing way you feel As every fairy tale comes real I've looked at love that way.



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

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



All my battles were with male egos. I’m just looking for equality, not to dominate. But I want to be able to control my vision.

All my battles were with male egos. I’m just looking for equality, not to dominate. But I want to be able to control my vision.





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Doubt is faith in the main: but faith, on the whole, is doubt; We cannot believe by proof: but could we believe without?



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An aesthetic movement with a revolutionary dynamism and no popular appeal should proceed quite otherwise than by public scandal, publicity stunt, noisy expulsion and excommunication.



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True, we have no conscription; that is, men are not usually forced to enlist in the army, but we have developed a far more exacting and rigid force-necessity.



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I simply like the monumentality of the subjects - the opportunity for metaphor and the varied light that comes with high altitudes.



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If we define risk as 'the likelihood of an irreversible negative outcome,' inaction is the greatest risk of all.




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