I came through folk music simply because it was easy to get into it. — Joni Mitchell Copy Share Image
I'm a method actress in my songs, which is why it's hard to sing them. — Joni Mitchell Copy Share Image
Tears and fears and feeling proud to say 'I love you' right out loud. — Joni Mitchell Copy Share Image
I have one piece of music, since 1997, and I don't see it having lyrics. Where does it go in this world?… — Joni Mitchell Copy Share Image
I don't like to make fluffy little songs, but now I want to make some light songs. — Joni Mitchell Copy Share Image
I assume there must be some kind of genetic thrust. My two grandmothers were very different, but both of them were frustrated… — Joni Mitchell Copy Share Image
“We are stardust Billion-year old carbon And we've got to get ourselves back to the garden” — Joni Mitchell Copy Share Image
In some ways, my gift for music and writing was born out of tragedy, really, and loss. — Joni Mitchell Copy Share Image
Once I got the open tunings for some reason, I began to get the harmonic sophistication that I heard that my musical… — Joni Mitchell Copy Share Image
You could write a song about some kind of emotional problem you are having, but it would not be a good song,… — Joni Mitchell Copy Share Image
Rachmaninoff made a musician out of me. His 'Rhapsody on a Theme by Paganini' was the piece that sent me into raptures.… — Joni Mitchell Copy Share Image
In search of love and music My whole life has been Illumination Corruption And diving, diving, diving, diving, Diving down to pick… — Joni Mitchell Copy Share Image
There was this mountain village in Russia where my music was getting in on some German radio station. I remember this because… — Joni Mitchell Copy Share Image
Will you take me as I am? Strung out on another man...California, I'm comin' home. — Joni Mitchell Copy Share Image
The considerations of a corporation, especially now, have nothing to do with art or music. — Joni Mitchell Copy Share Image
Musically, I don't think I'd ever dry up. I trust my musical invention. — Joni Mitchell Copy Share Image
I heard someone from the music business saying they are no longer looking for talent, they want people with a certain look… — Joni Mitchell Copy Share Image
I have lost my credibility as a hit maker because of these side excursions into other branches of music; by not being… — Joni Mitchell Copy Share Image
I heard someone from the music business saying they are no longer looking for talent, they want people with a certain look… — Joni Mitchell Copy Share Image
They paved paradise and put up a parkin lot With a pink hotel, a boutique, and a swingin' hot spot Don't it always seem… — Joni Mitchell Copy Share Image
And the seasons they go 'round and 'round And the painted ponies go up and down We're captive on the carousel of time We… — Joni Mitchell Copy Share Image
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… — Joni Mitchell Copy Share Image
Musically, I would never run dry. Any time I sit down to an instrument, I could write a song. — Joni Mitchell Copy Share Image
You snipe so steady, you snub so snide, so rip and ready to diminish and deride. — Joni Mitchell Copy Share Image
I loved Debussy, Stravinsky, Chopin, Tchaikovsky, anything with romantic melodies, especially the nocturnes. Nietzsche was a hero, especially with 'Thus Spoke Zarathustra.' He gets… — Joni Mitchell Copy Share Image
When the spirit of child's play enters into the creative process, it's a wonderful force and something to be nurtured. — Joni Mitchell Copy Share Image
I was young for my age. Not as naïve as they expected. I don't know why I seem to bring that out in people. — Joni Mitchell Copy Share Image
This is a nation that has lost the ability to be self-critical, and that makes a lie out of the freedoms. — Joni Mitchell Copy Share Image
Land of snap decisions, land of short attention spans, nothing is savored long enough to really understand. — Joni Mitchell Copy Share Image
