Joni Mitchell Quotes
Bows and flows of angel hair and ice cream castles in the air and feather canyons everywhere, I've looked at clouds that way.
If you see yourself as a kingly type, then you need your serfs and your army and so on around you.
But now old friends are acting strange They shake their heads, they say I've changed Well something's lost, but something's gained In living every day
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.
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 something he doesn't like. It has no resemblance to democracy.
I don't like being too looked up at or too looked down on. I prefer meeting in the middle to being worshipped or spat out.
No one likes to have less than they had before. That's the nature of the human animal.
Paul Simon started piling up a lot of words, more than the bar could handle, and I stopped!
It's in my stars to invent; I was born on Madame Curie's birthday. I have this need for originals, for innovation. That's why I like Charlie Parker.
I have lost my credibility as a hit maker because of these side excursions into other branches of music; by not being consistent. Consistency seems to be all-important.
When you reach that kind of successful pinnacle, it is the nature of the business and the press and everything that they go about tearing you down.
I was anti-intellectual to the nth. Basically I liked to dance and paint, and that was about it.
I come from pioneer stock, developers of the West, people who went out into the wilderness and set up home with nothing but a pair of oxen.
In some ways, my gift for music and writing was born out of tragedy, really, and loss.
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.
I'm a very analytical person, a somewhat introspective person; that's the nature of the work I do.
When I came to California, it was the mecca of the world. Every young person on the planet wanted to be here.
Everyone I know has attention deficit, and they say it with great pride. It's a bad time to be right.
I've looked at life from both sides now...from win and lose, and still somehow it's life's illusions I recall I really don't know life at all.
I had made all these rules for myself: I'm not writing social commentary, I'm not writing love songs.
Innocence is drowned in anarchy. The best lack conviction given time to think, and the worst are full of passion without mercy.
In search of love and music My whole life has been Illumination Corruption And diving, diving, diving, diving, Diving down to pick up every shiny thing
My individual, psychological descent coincided, ironically, with my ascent into the public eye.
