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Joni Mitchell Quotes

Joni Mitchell quotes

Canadian Musician November 7, 1943

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There's a man who's been out sailing. In a decade full of dreams. And he takes her to a schooner. And he treats her like a queen. Bearing beads from California. With their amber stones and green. He has called her from the harbor. He has kissed her with his freedom. He has heard her off to starboard. In the breaking and the breathing. Of the water weeds. While she was busy being free Joni Mitchell
The Beginning of Survival is my best album. I am very proud of it, and I am surprised at it, too. I thought some of Travelogue was a little heavy, but I don't think this is heavy. Joni Mitchell
Joni Mitchell quote: "everything comes and goes; pleasure moves on too early and..."
everything comes and goes; pleasure moves on too early and trouble leaves too slow Joni Mitchell
Joni Mitchell quote: "No one likes to have less than they had before. That's the..."
No one likes to have less than they had before. That's the nature of the human animal. Joni Mitchell
Joni Mitchell quote: "Everyone I know has attention deficit, and they say it with..."
Everyone I know has attention deficit, and they say it with great pride. It's a bad time to be right. Joni Mitchell
Joni Mitchell quote: "All romantics meet the same fate some day. Drunk and cynical..."
All romantics meet the same fate some day. Drunk and cynical and boring someone in some dark cafe. Joni Mitchell
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. Joni Mitchell
That's one thing that's always, like, been a difference between, like, the performing arts, and being a painter, you know. A painter does a painting, and he paints it, and that's it, you know. He has the joy of creating it, it hangs on a wall, and somebody buys it, and maybe somebody buys it again, or maybe nobody buys it and it sits up in a loft somewhere until he dies. But he never, you know, nobody ever, nobody ever said to Van Gogh, 'Paint a Starry Night again, man!' You know? He painted... Joni Mitchell
And the seasons they go'round and'round. And the painted ponies go up and down. We're captive on the carousel of time. We can't return we can only look behind. From where we came. And go round and round and round. In the circle game Joni Mitchell
Joni Mitchell quote: "My name had gone stale, and no matter how progressive I got,..."
My name had gone stale, and no matter how progressive I got, it was my time to die. Joni Mitchell
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 could begin to see what I was getting at. Joni Mitchell
We managed to put together a compilation that had some creativity to it. In the meantime I was listening to the free radio stations and I noticed that during their war coverage they were playing these songs born out of the Vietnam War that were all critical of the soldiers. 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? So I haven't recorded it. Joni Mitchell
Joni Mitchell quote: "I think I would go further into fine arts, I think, if I were..."
I think I would go further into fine arts, I think, if I were to continue. Joni Mitchell
Joni Mitchell quote: "This is a nation that has lost the ability to be..."
This is a nation that has lost the ability to be self-critical, and that makes a lie out of the freedoms. Joni Mitchell

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