I feel frustrated sometimes. I feel bitterness, but I’m not embittered. Feelings pass. A lot of the humor in the music is missed. They insist on pain… - Joni Mitchell

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I feel frustrated sometimes. I feel bitterness, but I’m not embittered. Feelings pass. A lot of the humor in the music is missed. They insist on painting me as this tragic . . . well not even a tragic, because in this town people don’t understand tragedy. All they understand is drama. You have to be moral to understand tragedy [laughs].

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About Joni Mitchell

Joni Mitchell (born Roberta Joan Anderson on November 7, 1943) is a Canadian singer-songwriter and painter.

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Birth Name: Roberta Joan Anderson
Alternative Names: Roberta Joan "Joni" Mitchell
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(about "Both Sides Now") I wrote it when I was 21. I took a lot of ridicule, too. "What do you know about life? You're only 21." You know, but I really think it took me to — that was done in my 50s — to, you know, it took a mature woman to bring it to life...I grew into that song.

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