Chords for Joni Mitchell on Bob Dylan
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Is it realistic, Jodi, for a contemporary music artist to not be a copycat of some sort?
Yes, I'm not a copycat.
I'm pretty original.
What about a new artist today?
I left a lot of half-baked ideas in my work for people to come and finish.
Where's the line?
Where's the line between paying
I'm not saying be like me, please.
I'm not trying to start a school.
People that have tried to start into my school, I went,
oh, we'll be to the imitators.
We're going to pile up those many words?
Paul Simon tried it, and I went, yikes, and I stopped doing it.
I go, oh, this should not be a school.
This is just painter's principles that I'm trying to apply.
Don't take that direction.
I'm not sure I succeeded with it.
It kind of sounds goofy when I hear it.
Where's the line between learning lessons from our predecessors,
our musical heroes, and being a copycat?
Tradition is a copycat, and most people love tradition.
I'm not saying
That's what sells.
So please, what I need, I'm not proselytizing what I need.
I need, because of my birthday, to discover.
Not everybody has that birthday or that need.
And most people are perfectly content, and 99.9% of the musicians
sat in their room, picked a hero, and emulated it,
and tried to cop that sound or that this or that that.
That's not my approach.
I approached it like a painter with a painter's need to be an original.
And that's not a normal need in music, nor am I saying, be like me.
I'm not.
It means you end up
I'm a mutt.
I belong to nothing.
There's a great liberty in that, and I'm a freedom freak.
But there are times when you wish
When you have no one on your side, you don't belong to anything.
But when you talk about someone like in 2010, about Dylan,
Bob Dylan, you say, he's not authentic at all, he's a plagiarist, his name
Oh, wait, wait.
I didn't say that.
I didn't say that he's not authentic at all.
That is not a word I use.
That was from the LA Times.
Yes, okay, that's journalistic bullshit.
And he told me, I haven't written a song in years.
I said, well, what are you talking about?
Who's writing them then?
He said, the box.
He just jots down
He came down to craft.
Inspiration doesn't stay with a lot of artists very long.
It's very brief, and then you're in the game,
and you've got to keep sustaining it with something.
You notice it, like One Trick Wonders, two good albums,
and then they peter out.
To sustain a gift for a long time is very rare.
Does that make you disappointed in him?
In Dylan?
No, and that remark is completely out of context.
The interviewer was an a**hole.
I went into that thing about the actor, the thing that we've been through here,
and he accused me of being unauthentic.
Now that's just ignorance.
I'm talking to a guy,
how do I explain to this moron whose IQ is somewhere between his shoe size and his knees,
and he's misconstruing everything I say.
I'm doing this for John Kelly, who's impersonating me.
I hate doing interviews with stupid people.
This guy's a moron.
And I said, and then I got philosophical.
Philosophical?
I said, yes, philosophical.
He said, you do know what philosophy is, don't you?
So everything I said, he's calling into question.
I can't talk to an adult like that without getting aggravated.
They call us exploding morgies.
Our nerves are all wrapped around by [F#] fibrous things.
Our nerves are worn thin.
We do not want to talk to stupid people, anyone with this disease.
How am I doing?
We're doing fine.
I do get intense though sometimes.
Let's get off the Bob Dylan.
I will ask him, he is of your generation, there's a generation there.
You talked about Leonard and Bob before.
I [E] like a lot of Bob's songs.
Musically, he's not very gifted.
He's borrowed his voice from old hillbillies.
He's got a lot of borrowed things.
He's not a great guitar player.
He's invented a character to deliver his songs.
Sometimes I wish that I could have that character.
You can do things with that character.
It's a
Yes, I'm not a copycat.
I'm pretty original.
What about a new artist today?
I left a lot of half-baked ideas in my work for people to come and finish.
Where's the line?
Where's the line between paying
I'm not saying be like me, please.
I'm not trying to start a school.
People that have tried to start into my school, I went,
oh, we'll be to the imitators.
We're going to pile up those many words?
Paul Simon tried it, and I went, yikes, and I stopped doing it.
I go, oh, this should not be a school.
This is just painter's principles that I'm trying to apply.
Don't take that direction.
I'm not sure I succeeded with it.
It kind of sounds goofy when I hear it.
Where's the line between learning lessons from our predecessors,
our musical heroes, and being a copycat?
Tradition is a copycat, and most people love tradition.
I'm not saying
That's what sells.
So please, what I need, I'm not proselytizing what I need.
I need, because of my birthday, to discover.
Not everybody has that birthday or that need.
And most people are perfectly content, and 99.9% of the musicians
sat in their room, picked a hero, and emulated it,
and tried to cop that sound or that this or that that.
That's not my approach.
I approached it like a painter with a painter's need to be an original.
And that's not a normal need in music, nor am I saying, be like me.
I'm not.
It means you end up
I'm a mutt.
I belong to nothing.
There's a great liberty in that, and I'm a freedom freak.
But there are times when you wish
When you have no one on your side, you don't belong to anything.
But when you talk about someone like in 2010, about Dylan,
Bob Dylan, you say, he's not authentic at all, he's a plagiarist, his name
Oh, wait, wait.
I didn't say that.
I didn't say that he's not authentic at all.
That is not a word I use.
That was from the LA Times.
Yes, okay, that's journalistic bullshit.
And he told me, I haven't written a song in years.
I said, well, what are you talking about?
Who's writing them then?
He said, the box.
He just jots down
He came down to craft.
Inspiration doesn't stay with a lot of artists very long.
It's very brief, and then you're in the game,
and you've got to keep sustaining it with something.
You notice it, like One Trick Wonders, two good albums,
and then they peter out.
To sustain a gift for a long time is very rare.
Does that make you disappointed in him?
In Dylan?
No, and that remark is completely out of context.
The interviewer was an a**hole.
I went into that thing about the actor, the thing that we've been through here,
and he accused me of being unauthentic.
Now that's just ignorance.
I'm talking to a guy,
how do I explain to this moron whose IQ is somewhere between his shoe size and his knees,
and he's misconstruing everything I say.
I'm doing this for John Kelly, who's impersonating me.
I hate doing interviews with stupid people.
This guy's a moron.
And I said, and then I got philosophical.
Philosophical?
I said, yes, philosophical.
He said, you do know what philosophy is, don't you?
So everything I said, he's calling into question.
I can't talk to an adult like that without getting aggravated.
They call us exploding morgies.
Our nerves are all wrapped around by [F#] fibrous things.
Our nerves are worn thin.
We do not want to talk to stupid people, anyone with this disease.
How am I doing?
We're doing fine.
I do get intense though sometimes.
Let's get off the Bob Dylan.
I will ask him, he is of your generation, there's a generation there.
You talked about Leonard and Bob before.
I [E] like a lot of Bob's songs.
Musically, he's not very gifted.
He's borrowed his voice from old hillbillies.
He's got a lot of borrowed things.
He's not a great guitar player.
He's invented a character to deliver his songs.
Sometimes I wish that I could have that character.
You can do things with that character.
It's a
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_ Is it realistic, Jodi, for a contemporary music artist to not be a copycat of some sort?
_ Yes, I'm not a copycat.
I'm pretty original.
_ What about a new artist today?
_ _ I left a lot of half-baked ideas _ _ in my work for people to come and finish.
Where's the line?
Where's the line between _ paying_
I'm not saying be like me, please.
I'm not trying to start a school.
People that have tried to start into my school, I went,
oh, we'll be to the imitators.
We're going to pile up those many words?
Paul Simon tried it, and I went, yikes, and I stopped doing it.
I go, oh, _ this should not be a school.
This is just painter's principles that I'm trying to apply.
Don't take that direction.
I'm not sure I succeeded with it.
It kind of sounds goofy when I hear it.
Where's the line between learning lessons from our predecessors,
our musical heroes, and being a copycat?
Tradition is a copycat, and most people love tradition.
I'm not _ saying_
That's what sells.
So please, what I need, I'm not proselytizing what I need.
I need, because of my birthday, to discover.
Not everybody has that birthday or that need.
And most people are perfectly content, and 99.9% of the musicians
sat in their room, picked a hero, and emulated it,
and tried to cop that sound or that this or that that. _ _ _
That's not my approach.
I approached it like a painter with a painter's need to be an original.
And that's not a normal need in music, nor am I saying, be like me.
I'm not.
_ It means you end up_
I'm a mutt.
I belong to nothing.
There's a great liberty in that, and I'm a freedom freak.
But there are times when you wish_
When you have no one on your side, you don't belong to anything.
But when you talk about someone like in 2010, about Dylan,
Bob Dylan, you say, he's not authentic at all, he's a plagiarist, his name_
Oh, wait, wait.
I didn't say that.
I didn't say that he's not authentic at all.
That is not a word I use.
That was from the LA Times.
Yes, okay, that's journalistic bullshit.
And _ _ he told me, I haven't written a song in years.
I said, well, what are you talking about?
Who's writing them then?
He said, the box.
He just jots down_
He came down to craft.
Inspiration doesn't stay with a lot of artists very long.
It's very brief, and then you're in the game,
and you've got to keep sustaining it with something. _ _
You notice it, like One Trick Wonders, two good albums,
and then they peter out.
To sustain a gift for a long time is very rare.
Does that make you disappointed in him?
_ In Dylan?
No, and that remark is completely out of context.
The interviewer was an a**hole.
I went into that thing about the actor, the thing that we've been through here,
and he accused me of being unauthentic.
Now that's just ignorance.
I'm talking to a guy,
how do I explain to this moron whose IQ is somewhere between his shoe size and his knees,
and he's misconstruing everything I say.
I'm doing this for John Kelly, who's impersonating me.
I hate doing interviews with stupid people.
This guy's a moron.
And I said, and then I got philosophical.
Philosophical?
I said, yes, philosophical. _
He said, you do know what philosophy is, don't you?
So everything I said, he's calling into question.
I can't talk to an adult like that without getting aggravated.
They call us exploding morgies.
Our nerves are all wrapped around by [F#] fibrous things.
Our nerves are worn thin.
We do not want to talk to stupid people, anyone with this disease.
How am I doing?
We're doing fine.
_ I do get intense though sometimes. _ _ _ _ _
Let's get off the Bob Dylan.
I will ask him, he is of your generation, there's a generation there.
You talked about Leonard and Bob before.
I [E] like a lot of Bob's songs.
Musically, he's not very gifted.
He's borrowed his voice from old hillbillies.
He's got a lot of borrowed things.
He's not a great guitar player. _
_ _ He's invented a character to deliver his songs.
Sometimes I wish that I could have that character.
_ You can do things with that character.
_ _ It's a
_ Yes, I'm not a copycat.
I'm pretty original.
_ What about a new artist today?
_ _ I left a lot of half-baked ideas _ _ in my work for people to come and finish.
Where's the line?
Where's the line between _ paying_
I'm not saying be like me, please.
I'm not trying to start a school.
People that have tried to start into my school, I went,
oh, we'll be to the imitators.
We're going to pile up those many words?
Paul Simon tried it, and I went, yikes, and I stopped doing it.
I go, oh, _ this should not be a school.
This is just painter's principles that I'm trying to apply.
Don't take that direction.
I'm not sure I succeeded with it.
It kind of sounds goofy when I hear it.
Where's the line between learning lessons from our predecessors,
our musical heroes, and being a copycat?
Tradition is a copycat, and most people love tradition.
I'm not _ saying_
That's what sells.
So please, what I need, I'm not proselytizing what I need.
I need, because of my birthday, to discover.
Not everybody has that birthday or that need.
And most people are perfectly content, and 99.9% of the musicians
sat in their room, picked a hero, and emulated it,
and tried to cop that sound or that this or that that. _ _ _
That's not my approach.
I approached it like a painter with a painter's need to be an original.
And that's not a normal need in music, nor am I saying, be like me.
I'm not.
_ It means you end up_
I'm a mutt.
I belong to nothing.
There's a great liberty in that, and I'm a freedom freak.
But there are times when you wish_
When you have no one on your side, you don't belong to anything.
But when you talk about someone like in 2010, about Dylan,
Bob Dylan, you say, he's not authentic at all, he's a plagiarist, his name_
Oh, wait, wait.
I didn't say that.
I didn't say that he's not authentic at all.
That is not a word I use.
That was from the LA Times.
Yes, okay, that's journalistic bullshit.
And _ _ he told me, I haven't written a song in years.
I said, well, what are you talking about?
Who's writing them then?
He said, the box.
He just jots down_
He came down to craft.
Inspiration doesn't stay with a lot of artists very long.
It's very brief, and then you're in the game,
and you've got to keep sustaining it with something. _ _
You notice it, like One Trick Wonders, two good albums,
and then they peter out.
To sustain a gift for a long time is very rare.
Does that make you disappointed in him?
_ In Dylan?
No, and that remark is completely out of context.
The interviewer was an a**hole.
I went into that thing about the actor, the thing that we've been through here,
and he accused me of being unauthentic.
Now that's just ignorance.
I'm talking to a guy,
how do I explain to this moron whose IQ is somewhere between his shoe size and his knees,
and he's misconstruing everything I say.
I'm doing this for John Kelly, who's impersonating me.
I hate doing interviews with stupid people.
This guy's a moron.
And I said, and then I got philosophical.
Philosophical?
I said, yes, philosophical. _
He said, you do know what philosophy is, don't you?
So everything I said, he's calling into question.
I can't talk to an adult like that without getting aggravated.
They call us exploding morgies.
Our nerves are all wrapped around by [F#] fibrous things.
Our nerves are worn thin.
We do not want to talk to stupid people, anyone with this disease.
How am I doing?
We're doing fine.
_ I do get intense though sometimes. _ _ _ _ _
Let's get off the Bob Dylan.
I will ask him, he is of your generation, there's a generation there.
You talked about Leonard and Bob before.
I [E] like a lot of Bob's songs.
Musically, he's not very gifted.
He's borrowed his voice from old hillbillies.
He's got a lot of borrowed things.
He's not a great guitar player. _
_ _ He's invented a character to deliver his songs.
Sometimes I wish that I could have that character.
_ You can do things with that character.
_ _ It's a