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Joni Mitchell Quotes

Joni Mitchell quotes

Canadian Musician November 7, 1943

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I met a woman. She had a mouth like yours. She knew your life. She knew your devils and your deeds. And she said"Go to him, stay with him if you can. But be prepared to bleed Joni Mitchell
Just before our love got lost you said "I am as constant as a northern star" And I said, constantly in the darkness, Where's that at? If you want me I'll be in the bar. Joni Mitchell
Joni Mitchell quote: "We love our lovin'....but not like we love our freedom."
We love our lovin'....but not like we love our freedom. Joni Mitchell
Joni Mitchell quote: "Love is touching souls."
Love is touching souls. Joni Mitchell
Joni Mitchell quote: "I never loved a man as far as I could pitch my shoe."
I never loved a man as far as I could pitch my shoe. Joni Mitchell
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 kind of a rabid mental illness. The songs are a little slice of life. Joni Mitchell
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. Joni Mitchell
Joni Mitchell quote: "It's life's illusions that I recall, I really don't know life..."
It's life's illusions that I recall, I really don't know life at all Joni Mitchell
Joni Mitchell quote: "Whatever it was that I felt was the weak link in my previous..."
Whatever it was that I felt was the weak link in my previous project gave me inspiration for the next one. Joni Mitchell
I don't understand why Europeans and South Americans can take more sophistication. Why is it that Americans need to hear their happiness major and their tragedy minor, and as jazzy as they can handle is a seventh chord? Are they not experiencing complex emotions? Joni Mitchell
Back then, I didn't have a big organization around me. I was just a kid with a guitar, traveling around. My responsibility basically was to the art, and I had extra time on my hands. There is no extra time now. There isn't enough time. Joni Mitchell
You could write a song about some kind of emotional problem you are having, but it would not be a good song, in my eyes, until it went through a period of sensitivity to a moment of clarity. Without that moment of clarity to contribute to the song, it's just complaining. Joni Mitchell
Joni Mitchell quote: "There'll be icicles and birthday clothes. And sometimes..."
There'll be icicles and birthday clothes. And sometimes there'll be sorrow Joni Mitchell
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... that's kind of disappointing. Joni Mitchell
You've got to shake your fists at lightning now, you've got to roar like forest fire. You've got to spread your light like blazes all across the sky. They're going to aim the hoses on you, show 'em you won't expire. Not till you burn up every passion, not even when you die. Come on now, you've got to try, if you're feeling contempt, well then you tell it. If you're tired of the silent night, Jesus, well then you yell it. Condemned to wires and hammers, strike every chord that you feel. That... Joni Mitchell

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