Joni Quotes

32 quotes by 30 authors

There really are two different schools of songwriting-American and Canadian. It's interesting. You guys have this history of guys like Paul Williams and Jimmy Webb,… — Fred Eaglesmith
My friends and I took songwriting very, very seriously. My hero was and still is Bob Dylan, but also people like Leonard Cohen and Joni… — Kazuo Ishiguro
I remember my father playing me Same Situation when I was a nipper, and saying how nobody since has done melodies as well as Joni… — Laura Marling
Chelsea Morning is a great Joni Mitchell song and I guess I'm partial to her lyrics because they show me a slightly different perspective on… — Neil Diamond
That's the music that I play at home all the time, Joni Mitchell. Court and Spark I love because I'd always hoped that she'd work… — Jimmy Page
Right away I thought I'd been hit by a hand grenade ... her (Joni Mitchells') voice, those words ... she nailed me to the back… — David Crosby
I would make tea for Joni Mitchell or clean her car, anything to be in the studio and watch her work. — Sheena Easton
I think everything Joni Mitchell did for music was big. — Maynard James Keenan
You know, I grew up listening to Joni Mitchell. — Maynard James Keenan
There were bars that began to have acoustic musicians play, it was 1970: Joni Mitchell, Jackson Browne, America, The Eagles, all that kind of stuff… — Shawn Colvin
I produced her first album, and I was breaking up with her at the time. That was not comfortable. Falling in love with Joni Mitchell… — David Crosby
Definitely I grew up listening to Joni Mitchell, and I think she is a wonderful writer, so she is probably part of me. — Jane Siberry
I started playing guitar and writing songs when I was 15. I think what mainly sparked my interest was just the fact that I grew… — Kate Voegele
I've always associated consciousness with artists like Bob Marley or Joni Mitchell or Bob Dylan. You know, artists that really talked about what was going… — Will Ferrell
And for some reason, when I'm sad, I do listen to Leonard Cohen, I do listen to Joni Mitchell. I do find myself going to… — Glen Hansard
I have been influenced by many different artists at many different stages of my life. Starting out, it was people like Elton John, Billy Joel,… — Sara Bareilles
The writers that I aspire to, like Joni Mitchell and Randy Newman, they'll tell you that the work gets harder, not easier. And they set… — Christopher Cross
No Joni Mitchell 8 track tapes in my car. — Al Yankovic
I listened to a lot of Joni Mitchell in high school. She was sort of an inspiration to me. I think she's a great lyricist,… — Zooey Deschanel
I'm an old-school, embarrassing Joni Mitchell fan. Her music made a hook in my soul and hasn't let go for all these years. I even… — Edie Falco

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