Joni Mitchell Quotes
Top 100 wise famous quotes and sayings by Joni Mitchell
Joni Mitchell Famous Quotes & Sayings
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I had made all these rules for myself: I'm not writing social commentary, I'm not writing love songs.
Eventually, with success, I started to feel more and more isolated - like I didn't have a community of artists.
Some people are upset to see you doing ordinary things. Those people, if they were a celebrity, they would have an entourage.
I dreamed I saw the bombers riding shot gun in the sky and they were turning into butterflies above our nation.
People were very protective of me. Overly so. I was in the industry for a long time before I had any idea of what drugs people were doing.
If you're smart or rich or lucky
Maybe you'll beat the laws of man
But the inner laws of spirit
And the outer laws of nature
No man can
Maybe you'll beat the laws of man
But the inner laws of spirit
And the outer laws of nature
No man can
My husband had an education. He had a degree in Literature. I married into a camp of literary types.
I could drink a case of you, darlin' ... and I would still be on my feet, yes I would still be on my feet ...
The land of litigation, the courts are like game shows. Take what's behind the curtain the jury cries.
When I began experimenting, people weren't ready for it. Once it's in its second and third generational stages, people can accept it.
I don't like being too looked up at or too looked down on. I prefer meeting in the middle to being worshiped or spat out.
Unlike some of my peers, I haven't really hit a writer's block. When I hit a block I just paint, which is an old crop rotation trick.
When I came to California, it was the mecca of the world. Every young person on the planet wanted to be here.
A few drinks later you're not so choosy when the closing lights strip off the shadows on this strange new flesh you've found.
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.
Fold your fleet wings I have brought some dreams to share
A dream that you love someone
A dream that the wars are done
A dream that you love someone
A dream that the wars are done
Innocence is drowned in anarchy. The best lack conviction given time to think, and the worst are full of passion without mercy.
They'll crucify you for staying the same, and they'll crucify you for change. I'd rather be crucified for changing.
I have one piece of music, since 1997, and I don't see it having lyrics. Where does it go in this world? So I haven't recorded it.
I never really wanted to be a star. I didn't like entering a room with all eyes on me. I still don't really like the attention of a birthday party.
I come from pioneer stock, developers of the West, people who went out into the wilderness and set up home with nothing but a pair of oxen.
Lazy reviewers look up other people's reviews and they write the same thing, so you get people writing crap based on crap.
It's in my stars to invent; I was born on Madame Curie's birthday. I have this need for originals, for innovation. That's why I like Charlie Parker.
Everybody's saying hell's the hippest way to go. Well, I don't think so, but I'm gonna take a look around it though.
My parents told me I'd point to a bed of flowers and say 'Pink. Pretty,' before I knew any other words.
The bands and the roadies, love 'em and leave 'em. It's pleasure to try 'em, but trouble to keep 'em.
But I have a tremendous will to live and a tremendous 'joie de vivre,' alternating with irritability.
For the first time in my career, I'm working in a fine-arts arena, so I'm finally getting some intelligent reviews.
The thing that gave me the most pain in life, psychologically, and it gave me tremendous pain psychologically, is man's disrespect for nature.
What I do is unusual: chordal movements that have never been used before, changing keys and modalities mid-song.