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Joni Mitchell Quotes
At the point where Im trying to force something and its not happening, and Im getting frustrated with, say, writing a poem, I can go and pick up the brushes and start painting. At the point where the painting seems to not be going anywhere, I go and pick up the guitar. - Joni Mitchell Quotes
Back then, I didnt have a big organization around me. I was just a kid with a guitar, traveling around. My responsibility basically was to the art, and I had extra time on my hands. There is no extra time now. There isnt enough time. - Joni Mitchell Quotes
Buddy Holly and the early rock n roll was no lighter than the way I play. Its very minimal. - Joni Mitchell Quotes
Everyone I know has attention deficit, and they say it with great pride. Its a bad time to he right. - Joni Mitchell Quotes
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 Quotes
I cant remember anything I ever wrote. - Joni Mitchell Quotes
I dont 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 Quotes
I hate show business. - Joni Mitchell Quotes
I have one piece of music, since 1997, and I dont see it having lyrics. Where does it go in this world? So I havent recorded it. - Joni Mitchell Quotes
I learned a woman is never an old woman. - Joni Mitchell Quotes
I think I would go further into fine arts, I think, if I were to continue. - Joni Mitchell Quotes
Ive got 50 different tunings in the guitar. - Joni Mitchell Quotes
Ira Gershwin, shame on him. I mean, some of the writing. - Joni Mitchell Quotes
My name had gone stale, and no matter how progressive I got, it was my time to die. - Joni Mitchell Quotes
No one likes to have less than they had before. Thats the nature of the human animal. - Joni Mitchell Quotes
Nobody understood The Reoccurring Dream, but after September 11, when we were coerced to do a national duty and go out and shop, surely people could begin to see what I was getting at. - Joni Mitchell Quotes
Not to dismiss Gershwin, but Gershwin is the chip; Ellington was the block. - Joni Mitchell Quotes
Paul Simon started piling up a lot of words, more than the bar could handle, and I stopped! - Joni Mitchell Quotes
Sorrow is so easy to express and yet so hard to tell. - Joni Mitchell Quotes
The Beginning of Survival is my best album. I am very proud of it, and I am surprised at it, too. I thought some of Travelogue was a little heavy, but I dont think this is heavy. - Joni Mitchell Quotes
The more decadent a culture gets, the more they have a need for what they dont have at all, which is innocence, so you end up with kiddie porn and a perverse obsession with youth. - Joni Mitchell Quotes
There are things to confess that enrich the world, and things that need not be said. - Joni Mitchell Quotes
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 Quotes
This is a nation that has lost the ability to be self-critical, and that makes a lie out of the freedoms. - Joni Mitchell Quotes
We have a war dictator who was not elected, he snuck in. so he punishes people that threaten him in any way, or even say something he doesnt like. It has no resemblance to democracy. - Joni Mitchell Quotes
We managed to put together a compilation that had some creativity to it. In the meantime I was listening to the free radio stations and I noticed that during their war coverage they were playing these songs born out of the Vietnam War that were all critical of the soldiers. - Joni Mitchell Quotes
When you reach that kind of successful pinnacle, it is the nature of the business and the press and everything that they go about tearing you down. - Joni Mitchell Quotes
When youre trying to pass on the best of the stuff youre culling to what should be a hungry culture but you have it diminished... thats kind of disappointing. - Joni Mitchell Quotes
With a painting, you dont have to go back and paint it again. - Joni Mitchell Quotes
You could write a song about some kind of emotional problem you are having, but it would not be a good song, in my eyes, until it went through a period of sensitivity to a moment of clarity. Without that moment of clarity to contribute to the song, its just complaining. - Joni Mitchell Quotes
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