Joni Mitchell Quotes

Van Gogh was impulsive.

Love is a very hard feeling to keep alive. It's a very fragile plant.

A little lawyer on the tube, he said, its so easy now, anyone can sue.

I'm not a kiss-and-teller. I never named names.

The coming of the kids hasn't come out in my art yet.

Everybody's saying hell's the hippest way to go. Well, I don't think so, but I'm gonna take a look around it though.

I can't remember anything I ever wrote.

You wake up one day and suddenly realize that your youth is behind you, even though you're still young at heart.

Unlike some of my peers, I haven't really hit a writer's block. When I hit a block I just paint, which is an old crop rotation trick.

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

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.

When I was 19 I went to art school. I had six months of teaching myself to play baritone ukulele under my belt so I was sort of a novice folkie... I was singing folk songs at that time.

Woke up, it was a Chelsea morning, and the first thing that I knew there was milk and toast and honey and a bowl of oranges, too.

You snipe so steady, you snub so snide, so rip and ready to diminish and deride.

Rolling Stone hates me. They must have an editorial policy to do me in for many years.

My parents told me I'd point to a bed of flowers and say 'Pink. Pretty,' before I knew any other words.

Eventually, with success, I started to feel more and more isolated - like I didn't have a community of artists.

I hate show business.

We'll laugh and toast to nothing, and smash our empty glasses down.

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.

I met a redneck on a Grecian isle who did the Goat Dance very well.

They used to laugh at me when I refused to ride on all those double decker buses, all because there was no driver on the top.

The bands and the roadies, love 'em and leave 'em. It's pleasure to try 'em, but trouble to keep 'em.

He saw my complications and he mirrored me back simplified, and we laughed how our perfect world would always be denied.

I assume there must be some kind of genetic thrust. My two grandmothers were very different, but both of them were frustrated musicians.

The pirate he will sink you with a kiss, he'll steal your heart and sail away.

Does the moon play only silver when it strums the galaxy?

Fibers in a variety of colors protrude out of my skin like mushrooms after a rainstorm. They cannot be forensically identified as animal, vegetable or mineral.

I hang my laundry on the line when I write.

I never really wanted to be a star. I didn't like entering a room with all eyes on me. I still don't really like the attention of a birthday party.

Richard got married to a figure skater, and he bought her a dishwasher and a coffee percolator.

I prefer Christmas, which is everybody's holiday. It's just my nature. I don't like to be zeroed in on en masse.

I always thought the women of song don't get along, and I don't know why that is.

Elusive dreams and vague desires fanned to fiery needs by deadly deeds of falling empires.

Oh it gets so lonely When you're walking And the streets are full of strangers

I'm drinking champagne, got the head phones up high, can't numb you out.

Inside your own self pity there you swim, in sinking down to drown her voice still haunts you, and only with your laughter can you win.

You feed it all your woes, the ghostly garden grows.

The Hollywood sirens are shrieking, while down some search lit alley runs some lost belief.

But you know it's hard to tell When you're in the spell if it's wrong or if it's real But you're bound to lose If you let the blues get you scared to feel

I'm a painter first, and a musician second.

I see bodies as individual things.

What I do is unusual: chordal movements that have never been used before, changing keys and modalities mid-song.

It's life's illusions that I recall, I really don't know life at all

The songwriting was almost like something I did while I was waiting for my daughter to come back.

Fear is like the wilderland - Stepping stones or sinking sand

Do you see how you hurt me, baby? So I hurt you too. Then we both get so blue. I am on a lonely road and I am traveling, looking for the key to set me free.

I liked playing in small clubs. I really liked holding the attention of thirty or forty people. I never liked the roar of the big crowd.

I couldn't see passion as a bad thing.

I've got 50 different tunings in the guitar.