I liked playing in small clubs. I really liked holding the attention of thirty or forty people. I never liked the roar… — Joni Mitchell Copy Share Image
I didn't like the sound of people gasping at the mere mention of my name. It horrified me... — Joni Mitchell Copy Share Image
You can give me 400,000 hostile people and I won't even break sweat. If you give me 200 adoring people, my mouth… — Joni Mitchell Copy Share Image
The most important thing is to write in your own blood. I bare intimate feelings because people should know how other people… — Joni Mitchell Copy Share Image
people will tell you were they have gone, they'll tell you where to go, but until you get there for yourself you… — Joni Mitchell Copy Share Image
I come from pioneer stock, developers of the West, people who went out into the wilderness and set up home with nothing… — Joni Mitchell Copy Share Image
Some people are upset to see you doing ordinary things. Those people, if they were a celebrity, they would have an entourage. — Joni Mitchell Copy Share Image
When I felt that fame - people were nosing me out - well, I moved on. I used traveling names; wigs if… — Joni Mitchell Copy Share Image
In a pure anonymous encounter you find a world alive and full of character. In New York, the street adventures are incredible.… — Joni Mitchell Copy Share Image
I like my freedom. I like to do my own grocery shopping. People do recognize you. They are kind of shocked. Some… — Joni Mitchell Copy Share Image
In New York, the street adventures are incredible. There are a thousand stories in a single block. You see the stories in… — Joni Mitchell Copy Share Image
Ask anyone in America where the craziest people live and they'll tell you California. Ask anyone in California where the craziest people… — 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… — Joni Mitchell Copy Share Image
People were very protective of me. Overly so. I was in the industry for a long time before I had any idea… — Joni Mitchell Copy Share Image
If I'm censoring for anyone, it's for my parents. They are very old-fashioned and moral people. They still don't understand me that… — Joni Mitchell Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
When I began experimenting, people weren't ready for it. Once it's in its second and third generational stages, people can accept it. — Joni Mitchell Copy Share Image
People used to say nobody can sing my songs but me - they're too personal. — 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 thrive on change. That's probably why my chord changes are weird, because chords depict emotions. They'll be going along on one… — Joni Mitchell Copy Share Image
Nobody understood The Reoccurring Dream, but after September 11, when we were coerced to do a national duty and go out and… — Joni Mitchell Copy Share Image
We have a war dictator who was not elected, he snuck in. so he punishes people that threaten him in any way,… — Joni Mitchell Copy Share Image
I was demanding of myself a deeper and greater honesty, more and more revelation in my work in order to give it… — 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
