Joni Mitchell Quotes

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Joni Mitchell

Profession : Musician

Birth : November 7, 1943

I think I would go further into fine arts, I think, if I were to continue.

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I can't remember anything I ever wrote.

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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 get up to Saskatchewan from Texas. Late at night after the local station closed down.

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Ira Gershwin, shame on him. I mean, some of the writing.

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Paul Simon started piling up a lot of words, more than the bar could handle, and I stopped!

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

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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, but he didn't roll. He has got no swing in him.

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

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My life came down to being a granny and watching a lot of television.

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I conceived in art college at the age of 20, near the end of term.

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

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I'm not a pitiable creature. It's just that I suffer very eloquently.

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In terms of fiction, I'd rather go out and have a good time than read a book about someone having a good or bad time.

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I don't like being too looked up at or too looked down on. I prefer meeting in the middle to being worshiped or spat out.

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My heart is broken in the face of the stupidity of my species.

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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 vocabulary of spirits. It's basically militant.

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My first four albums covered the usual youth problems - looking for love in all the wrong places - while the next five are basically about being in your 30s.

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My individual, psychological descent coincided, ironically, with my ascent into the public eye.

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The thing that gave me the most pain in life, psychologically, and it gave me tremendous pain psychologically, is man's disrespect for nature.

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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 well.

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