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I don't 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

#complex #emotions #europeans #experiencing #handle

I see music as fluid architecture. ↗

— Joni Mitchell

#fluid #i #i see #music #see

I see the entire world as Eden, and every time you take an inch of it away, you must do so with respect. ↗

— Joni Mitchell

#eden #entire #entire world #every #every time

I used to be monastic, almost. Now I'm like a Tibetan that has discovered hamburgers and television. I'm catching up on Americana. ↗

— Joni Mitchell

#americana #catching #discovered #hamburgers #i

I'd had a rough childhood. ↗

— Joni Mitchell

#had #i #rough

I'm a method actress in my songs, which is why it's hard to sing them. ↗

— Joni Mitchell

#hard #i #method #sing #songs

My life came down to being a granny and watching a lot of television. ↗

— Joni Mitchell

#came #down #granny #life #lot

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

— Joni Mitchell

#chip #dismiss #ellington #gershwin

The thing that gave me the most pain in life, psychologically, and it gave me tremendous pain psychologically, is man's disrespect for nature. ↗

— Joni Mitchell

#gave #life #man #me #most

There was this mountain village in Russia where my music was getting in on some German radio station. I remember this because music used to get up to Saskatchewan from Texas. Late at night after the local station closed down. ↗

— Joni Mitchell

#because #closed #down #german #get