Song Quotes by Joni Mitchell

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

— Joni Mitchell

Oh it gets so lonely When you're walking And the streets are full of strangers

— Joni Mitchell

I always thought the women of song don't get along, and I don't know why that is.

— Joni Mitchell

I'm a method actress in my songs, which is why it's hard to sing them.

— Joni Mitchell

I've got 50 different tunings in the guitar.

— Joni Mitchell

People used to say nobody can sing my songs but me - they're too personal.

— Joni Mitchell

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

The songwriting was almost like something I did while I was waiting for my daughter to come back.

— Joni Mitchell

I heard someone from the music business saying they are no longer looking for talent, they want people with a certain look…

— Joni Mitchell

Musically, I would never run dry. Any time I sit down to an instrument, I could write a song.

— Joni Mitchell

The bands and the roadies, love 'em and leave 'em. It's pleasure to try 'em, but trouble to keep 'em.

— Joni Mitchell

In search of love and music My whole life has been Illumination Corruption And diving, diving, diving, diving, Diving down to pick…

— Joni Mitchell

I assume there must be some kind of genetic thrust. My two grandmothers were very different, but both of them were frustrated…

— Joni Mitchell

How does a person create a song? A lot of it is being open to encounter and to be in touch with…

— Joni Mitchell

We managed to put together a compilation that had some creativity to it. In the meantime I was listening to the free…

— Joni Mitchell

When I was 19 I went to art school. I had six months of teaching myself to play baritone ukulele under my…

— Joni Mitchell

In a pure anonymous encounter you find a world alive and full of character. In New York, the street adventures are incredible.…

— Joni Mitchell

You could write a song about some kind of emotional problem you are having, but it would not be a good song,…

— Joni Mitchell

I loved Debussy, Stravinsky, Chopin, Tchaikovsky, anything with romantic melodies, especially the nocturnes. Nietzsche was a hero, especially with 'Thus Spoke Zarathustra.'…

— Joni Mitchell

I wrote 'Big Yellow Taxi' on my first trip to Hawaii. I took a taxi to the hotel and when I woke…

— Joni Mitchell

Tears and fears and feeling proud To say I love you, right out loud Dreams and schemes and circus crowds I've looked…

— Joni Mitchell

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

— Joni Mitchell

What I do is unusual: chordal movements that have never been used before, changing keys and modalities mid-song.

— Joni Mitchell

I had made all these rules for myself: I'm not writing social commentary, I'm not writing love songs.

— Joni Mitchell

Musically, I don't think I'd ever dry up. I trust my musical invention.

— Joni Mitchell

I have lost my credibility as a hit maker because of these side excursions into other branches of music; by not being…

— Joni Mitchell