Joni Mitchell Quotes

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• The songwriting was almost like something I did while I was waiting for my daughter to come back.
• Van Gogh was impulsive.
• What I do is unusual: chordal movements that have never been used before, changing keys and modalities mid-song.
• When I came to California, it was the mecca of the world. Every young person on the planet wanted to be here.
• When the world becomes a massive mess with nobody at the helm, it's time for artists to make their mark.
• You wake up one day and suddenly realize that your youth is behind you, even though you're still young at heart.
• At the point where I'm trying to force something and it's not happening, and I'm getting frustrated with, say, writing a poem, I can go…
• We have a war dictator who was not elected, he snuck in. so he punishes people that threaten him in any way, or even say…
• Because I'm so busy and because I think of myself as a painter, I desperately guard the time that I have to paint. And sometimes…
• I heard someone from the music business saying they are no longer looking for talent, they want people with a certain look and a willingness…
• My first four albums covered the usual youth problems - looking for love in all the wrong places - while the next five are basically…
• 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…
• 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…
• There was this mountain village in Russia where my music was getting in on some German radio station. I remember this because music used to…
• When you're trying to pass on the best of the stuff you're culling to what should be a hungry culture but you have it diminished...…
• White rhythm is waltzes, marches, and the polka. In Africa, rhythm is used for a celebratory groove, but white rhythm doesn't have such an enormous…
• You have this mounting aggressive ignorance with the rabbit's foot of their particular religion. You don't really have any kind of spiritual law, just a…
• You know, Neil Young is singing Rock n' roll will never die, and Neil never rocked and rolled in his life. I mean, he rocked,…
• We love our lovin'....but not like we love our freedom.
• people will tell you were they have gone, they'll tell you where to go, but until you get there for yourself you never really know.

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