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Joni Mitchell Quotes

I certainly don’t want to be an angry old artist.

– Joni Mitchell

My style of songwriting is influenced by cinema. I’m a frustrated filmmaker. A fan once said to me, ‘Girl, you make me see pictures in my head!’ and I took that as a great compliment. That’s exactly my intention.

– Joni Mitchell

Everyone I know has attention deficit, and they say it with great pride. It’s a bad time to be right.

– Joni Mitchell

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

Americans have decided to be stupid and shallow since 1980.

– Joni Mitchell

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.

– Joni Mitchell

I have always thought of myself as a painter derailed by circumstance.

– Joni Mitchell

I don’t like to make fluffy little songs, but now I want to make some light songs.

– Joni Mitchell

I’ve got 50 different tunings in the guitar.

– Joni Mitchell

Not to dismiss Gershwin, but Gershwin is the chip; Ellington was the block.

– Joni Mitchell

I see music as fluid architecture.

– Joni Mitchell

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

I’m a little young for retirement.

– 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

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

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

– 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

My family could only afford to get me the box of eight Crayola crayons, but I craved the one with all 24 colours. I wanted magenta and turquoise and silver and gold.

– Joni Mitchell

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

– Joni Mitchell

No one likes to have less than they had before. That’s the nature of the human animal.

– 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

Buddy Holly and the early rock ‘n’ roll was no lighter than the way I play. It’s very minimal.

– Joni Mitchell

This is a nation that has lost the ability to be self-critical, and that makes a lie out of the freedoms.

– Joni Mitchell

I loved Debussy, Stravinsky, Chopin, Tchaikovsky, anything with romantic melodies, especially the nocturnes. Nietzsche was a hero, especially with ‘Thus Spoke Zarathustra.’ He gets a bad rap; he’s very misunderstood. He’s a maker of individuals, and he was a teacher of teachers.

– Joni Mitchell

I find a lot of poetry to be narcissistic.

– Joni Mitchell

There are things to confess that enrich the world, and things that need not be said.

– Joni Mitchell

I’m a Buddhist.

– Joni Mitchell

Drag wasn’t always counterculture.

– Joni Mitchell

I’m not a pitiable creature. It’s just that I suffer very eloquently.

– Joni Mitchell

My childhood was very difficult. I had every childhood disease and then some, but my parents didn’t mollycoddle me. They left me to fight those battles on my own. I guess that was very Canadian, very stoic. But it’s good. I had to become a warrior. I had to give up hope and find a substitute for hope that would be far more stable.

– Joni Mitchell

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