I wanted to be Joni Mitchell.

I don't know any guitar player, any of the real greats, who don't rate Joni Mitchell up there with the best of them.

— Chrissie Hynde

I am multiracial, and I went through different phases - at one point, I listened to Wu-Tang and hip-hop, and then the next year…

— Tessa Thompson

Adele's voice is incredible. Chet Baker also has one of my favorite voices of all time, and so does Joni Mitchell. And Frank Black.…

— Megan Boone

I was raised in Topanga Canyon. It's an eclectic community up in the Santa Monica mountains. A lot of musicians lived there - Joni…

— Inara George

I was really lost for a while in my teens. I was angry. But when I found music - Bob Dylan, Neil Young, Joni…

— Ray LaMontagne

Laura Marling is Joni Mitchell-level for me.

— Zoe Ball

I would say I grew up listening a lot to Barbra Streisand and Judy Garland and Joan Baez and Joni Mitchell. I grew up…

— Melora Hardin

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

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

— Vonda Shepard

Joni Mitchell's someone who has tried to make sense of her own world, sometimes painfully, through song.

— Nick Hornby

As a kid, I was listening to Aretha Franklin, Etta James and hip-hop as well as music my parents were listening to, like Joni…

— Alanis Morissette

On first listening, Joni Mitchell's 'Court And Spark,' the first truly great pop album of 1974, sounds surprisingly light; by the third or fourth…

— Jon Landau

Why would I want to sound like Joni Mitchell? I've got Joni Mitchell records, and they're great, and I couldn't possibly be that good.

— Ben Folds

My big influences are Joni Mitchell, and a lot of classical and Indian music, as well as Nina Simone and the personal blues and…

— Yael Naim

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

— Sophie McShera