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24 quotations by Joni Mitchell

QuoteWith a painting, you don't have to go back and paint it again.Quote

QuoteWhen 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.Quote

QuoteWhen 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.Quote

QuoteWe 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.Quote

QuoteWe 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.Quote

QuoteThis is a nation that has lost the ability to be self-critical, and that makes a lie out of the freedoms.Quote

QuoteThere are things to confess that enrich the world, and things that need not be said.Quote

QuoteThe more decadent a culture gets, the more they have a need for what they don't have at all, which is innocence, so you end up with kiddie porn and a perverse obsession with youth.Quote

QuoteThe 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.Quote

QuoteSorrow is so easy to express and yet so hard to tell.Quote

QuotePaul Simon started piling up a lot of words, more than the bar could handle, and I stopped!Quote

QuoteNot to dismiss Gershwin, but Gershwin is the chip; Ellington was the block.Quote

QuoteNobody 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.Quote

QuoteMy name had gone stale, and no matter how progressive I got, it was my time to die.Quote

QuoteIra Gershwin, shame on him. I mean, some of the writing.Quote

QuoteI think I would go further into fine arts, I think, if I were to continue.Quote

QuoteI 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.Quote

QuoteI hate show business.Quote

QuoteI 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?Quote

QuoteI can't remember anything I ever wrote.Quote

QuoteEveryone I know has attention deficit, and they say it with great pride. It's a bad time to he right.Quote

QuoteBuddy Holly and the early rock 'n' roll was no lighter than the way I play. It's very minimal.Quote

QuoteBack 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.Quote

QuoteAt 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.Quote