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We call for the three great stimulants of the exhausted ones, artifice, brutality, and innocence. — Joni Mitchell

You feed it all your woes, the ghostly garden grows. — Joni Mitchell

Musically, I don't think I'd ever dry up. I trust my musical invention. — Joni Mitchell

Some people are upset to see you doing ordinary things. Those people, if they were a celebrity, they would have an entourage. — Joni Mitchell

Won't you stay We'll put on the day And we'll talk in present tenses — Joni Mitchell

I create by feeling rather than by intellectualizing. — Joni Mitchell

I dreamed I saw the bombers riding shot gun in the sky and they were turning into butterflies above our nation. — Joni Mitchell

An artist needs a certain amount of turmoil and confusion. — Joni Mitchell

I met a redneck on a Grecian isle who did the Goat Dance very well. — Joni Mitchell

They used to laugh at me when I refused to ride on all those double decker buses, all because there was no driver on the top. — Joni Mitchell

I lost my daughter at 21. I had to give her up because I was broke, no place to take her, no money to take her. That was very traumatic. — Joni Mitchell

I listen to a lot of old music, like Joni Mitchell and David Bowie. — Sophie McShera

Does the moon play only silver when it strums the galaxy? — Joni Mitchell

During times like these, the wise are influential. — Joni Mitchell

All I really, really want our love to do is to bring out the best in me and in you too. — Joni Mitchell

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 — Joni Mitchell

I could drink a case of you. — Joni Mitchell

I certainly don't want to be an angry old artist. — Joni Mitchell

My goal as a writer is more to comfort than to disturb. — Joni Mitchell

It's life's illusions that I recall, I really don't know life at all — Joni Mitchell

The land of litigation, the courts are like game shows. Take what's behind the curtain the jury cries. — Joni Mitchell

Musically, I would never run dry. Any time I sit down to an instrument, I could write a song. — Joni Mitchell

Love is a very hard feeling to keep alive. It's a very fragile plant. — Joni Mitchell

Sex sells everything and sex kills. — Joni Mitchell

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. — Joni Mitchell

I sang in art school, just to get money to smoke. — Joni Mitchell

I don't know how to sell out. If I tried to sell out I don't think I could. — Joni Mitchell

When I felt that fame, people were nosing me out, well I moved on. I used traveling names. Wigs, if necessary. — Joni Mitchell

The coming of the kids hasn't come out in my art yet. — Joni Mitchell

In some ways, my gift for music and writing was born out of tragedy, really, and loss. — Joni Mitchell

You wake up one day and suddenly realize that your youth is behind you, even though you're still young at heart. — Joni Mitchell

I see music as fluid architecture. — Joni Mitchell

I've got 50 different tunings in the guitar. — Joni Mitchell

Do you want - do you want - do you want to dance with me baby? — Joni Mitchell

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. — Joni Mitchell

Oh it gets so lonely
When you're walking
And the streets are full of strangers — Joni Mitchell

Lord, there's danger in this land, you get witch hunts and wars when church and state hold hands. — Joni Mitchell

Sorrow is so easy to express and yet so hard to tell. — Joni Mitchell

Applause, applause, life is our cause. — Joni Mitchell

A little lawyer on the tube, he said, its so easy now, anyone can sue. — Joni Mitchell

I think I would go further into fine arts, I think, if I were to continue. — Joni Mitchell

I always thought the women of song don't get along, and I don't know why that is. — Joni Mitchell

I believe that I am male and I am female. — Joni Mitchell

Happiness is the best facelift. — Joni Mitchell

For the first time in my career, I'm working in a fine-arts arena, so I'm finally getting some intelligent reviews. — Joni Mitchell

I live in a box of paints
I'm frightened by the devil
And I'm drawn to those ones that ain't afraid — Joni Mitchell

I'm drinking champagne, got the head phones up high, can't numb you out. — Joni Mitchell

I am as constant as a northern star — Joni Mitchell

So many things I would have done, but clouds got in my way. — Joni Mitchell

America is in a runaway-train position and dragging all the world with it. It's grotesquely mentally ill. — Joni Mitchell

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. — Joni Mitchell

We've been waiting for a format like triple-A where you can hear Crowded House, Joni Mitchell and R.E.M. — Vonda Shepard

Laughing and crying, you know it's the same release. — Joni Mitchell

Paul Simon started piling up a lot of words, more than the bar could handle, and I stopped! — Joni Mitchell

I find a lot of poetry to be narcissistic. — Joni Mitchell

I still believe in the power of the word, that words inspire. — Joni Mitchell

I'm not a pitiable creature. It's just that I suffer very eloquently. — Joni Mitchell

Heaven's full of astronauts and the Lord's on death row. — Joni Mitchell

Daydreamin' drugs the pain of living. — Joni Mitchell

I grew up listening to Joni Mitchell's version of "A Case of You." My mom was a huge Joni Mitchell fan. — Cheyenne Jackson

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. — Joni Mitchell

Innocence is drowned in anarchy. The best lack conviction given time to think, and the worst are full of passion without mercy. — Joni Mitchell

The bands and the roadies, love 'em and leave 'em. It's pleasure to try 'em, but trouble to keep 'em. — Joni Mitchell

We'll laugh and toast to nothing, and smash our empty glasses down. — Joni Mitchell

Augustine, Anne Sexton and Sylvia Plath are confessional writers and all three make me sick. I have nothing in common with them. — Joni Mitchell

She'll prophesy your death. She won't say when. — Joni Mitchell

A young female essayist saying they're influenced by Joan Didion is like a young female singer-songwriter saying they're influenced by Joni Mitchell. — Meghan Daum

I assume there must be some kind of genetic thrust. My two grandmothers were very different, but both of them were frustrated musicians. — Joni Mitchell

Land of snap decisions, land of short attention spans, nothing is savored long enough to really understand. — Joni Mitchell

But I have a tremendous will to live and a tremendous 'joie de vivre,' alternating with irritability. — Joni Mitchell

I try not to steal from myself, but the modalities create similarities. — Joni Mitchell

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

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. — Joni Mitchell

The considerations of a corporation, especially now, have nothing to do with art or music. — Joni Mitchell

I was anti-intellectual to the nth. Basically I liked to dance and paint, and that was about it. — Joni Mitchell

I paint my joy and I sing my sorrow. — Joni Mitchell

The Hollywood sirens are shrieking, while down some search lit alley runs some lost belief. — Joni Mitchell

You win the lasting laurels with your laughter. — Joni Mitchell

I hate show business. — Joni Mitchell

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

Everything comes and goes; pleasure moves on too early and trouble leaves too slow — Joni Mitchell

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

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

Whatever it was that I felt was the weak link in my previous project gave me inspiration for the next one. — Joni Mitchell

Definitely I grew up listening to Joni Mitchell, and I think she is a wonderful writer, so she is probably part of me. — Jane Siberry

Van Gogh was impulsive. — Joni Mitchell

Lazy reviewers look up other people's reviews and they write the same thing, so you get people writing crap based on crap. — Joni Mitchell

I came through folk music simply because it was easy to get into it. — Joni Mitchell

Heart and humor and humility, he said will lighten up your heavy load. — Joni Mitchell

They won't give peace a chance, that's just a dream some of us had — Joni Mitchell

Sunlight will renew your pride. — Joni Mitchell

People will tell you were they have gone, they'll tell you where to go, but until you get there for yourself you never really know. — Joni Mitchell

My parents told me I'd point to a bed of flowers and say 'Pink. Pretty,' before I knew any other words. — Joni Mitchell

My heart is broken in the face of the stupidity of my species. — Joni Mitchell

How does a person create a song? A lot of it is being open to encounter and to be in touch with the miraculous. — Joni Mitchell

I didn't like the sound of people gasping at the mere mention of my name. It horrified me. — Joni Mitchell

I've always loved aggressive, hard, noisy, yet melodic bands, and at the same time I've always loved 'Blue' by Joni Mitchell. — Art Alexakis

I couldn't see passion as a bad thing. — Joni Mitchell

I do have this reputation for being a serious person. — Joni Mitchell

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