Joni Mitchell Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“Keep a good heart. That's the most important thing in life. It's not how much money you make or what you can acquire. The art of it is to keep a good heart.”
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“All my battles were with male egos. I’m just looking for equality, not to dominate. But I want to be able to control my vision.”
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“We are stardust, we are golden and we've got to get ourselves back to the garden.”
-- Joni MitchellSource : "Woodstock" (song) (1969)
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“I thrive on change. That's probably why my chord changes are weird, because chords depict emotions. They'll be going along on one key and I'll drop off a cliff, and suddenly they will go into a whole other key signature. That will drive some people crazy, but that's how my life is.”
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“I see music as fluid architecture.”
-- Joni MitchellSource : "POP MUSIC; Joni Mitchell Finds the Peace of Middle Age" by Stephen Holden. Archives, www.nytimes.com. 1991.
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“Depression can be the sand that makes the pearl. Most of my best work came out of it.”
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“I still believe in the power of the word, that words inspire.”
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“Moons and Junes and Ferris wheels The dizzy dancing way you feel As every fairy tale comes real I've looked at love that way.”
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“Won't you stay We'll put on the day And we'll talk in present tenses”
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“At the point where I'm trying to force something and it's not happening, and I'm getting frustrated with, say, writing a poem, I can go and pick up the brushes and start painting. At the point where the painting seems to not be going anywhere, I go and pick up the guitar.”
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“Fly silly sea bird, no dreams can possess you, no voices can blame you for sun on your wings.”
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“Chase away the demons, and they will take the angels with them.”
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“My heart is broken in the face of the stupidity of my species.”
-- Joni MitchellSource : "Working Three Shifts, and Outrage Overtime" by David Yaffe, www.nytimes.com. February 4, 2007.
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“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.”
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“All I really, really want our love to do is to bring out the best in me and in you too.”
-- Joni MitchellSource : Song: All I Want
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“I wrote 'Big Yellow Taxi' on my first trip to Hawaii. I took a taxi to the hotel and when I woke up the next morning, I threw back the curtains and saw these beautiful green mountains in the distance. Then, I looked down and there was a parking lot as far as the eye could see, and it broke my heart this blight on paradise. That's when I sat down and wrote the song.”
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“When the world becomes a massive mess with nobody at the helm, it's time for artists to make their mark.”
-- Joni MitchellSource : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
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“There are things to confess that enrich the world, and things that need not be said.”
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“You know that it never has been easy Whether you do or do not resign Whether you travel the breadth of the extremities Or stick to some straighter line.”
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“I'm a fine artist working in a commercial arena, so that's my cross to bear”
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“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 it and that was it.”
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“You've got to keep the child alive; you can't create without it.”
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“To enjoy my music, you need depth and emotionality.”
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“Sorrow is so easy to express and yet so hard to tell.”
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“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
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