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Quotes tagged “Joni Mitchell”

“Half a century later, Mitchell’s 'Blue' exists in that rarefied space beyond the influential or even the canonical.”
— New York Times, 50 Reasons to Love Joni Mitchell's ‘Blue’
Tagged: Joni Mitchell, Blue, Music
“I'm not a herd animal.”
— Joni Mitchell, Joni Mitchell on the "Failure of the Baby Boomers" on Q
Tagged: Joni Mitchell
“People tell me I'm from mars all the time.”
— Joni Mitchell, Joni Mitchell on the "Failure of the Baby Boomers" on Q
Tagged: Joni Mitchell, My aesthetic
“If you make a good marriage, God bless you. If you make a bad marriage, become a philosopher.”
— Joni Mitchell, Joni Mitchell on the "Failure of the Baby Boomers" on Q
Tagged: Joni Mitchell, Marriage, Philosophy
“It was a way to get money to smoke and get pizza and go to a movie.”
— Joni Mitchell, Joni Mitchell on the "Failure of the Baby Boomers" on Q
Tagged: Joni Mitchell, Writing, Music, Career
“Even Dylan's writing was dumb.”
— Joni Mitchell, Joni Mitchell on the "Failure of the Baby Boomers" on Q
Tagged: Bob Dylan, Joni Mitchell, Music, Writing
“If I’m not inspired to write, I don’t. Whether it’s me as a singer or a dancer or a writer or a painter or a filmmaker or on Instagram or a mixtape, everything I do is coming out of a real need. I think Joni Mitchell is the one who said that singing, laughing, and crying come up out of the same need: to get stuff out. I just haven’t had anything to say. I can’t really force it. If I did, what I’d be saying wouldn’t be coming from an honest place. Or maybe I’ve said all the things I feel like saying.”
— Erykah Badu, In Conversation: Erykah Badu
Tagged: Writing, How to be a writer, Joni Mitchell, Artists
“Men often wanted Mitchell to be a wife, a muse, a siren, or a star. Instead, they got a genius, and one especially suited to deconstructing their fantasies of her.”
— Dan Chiasson, Joni Mitchell’s Openhearted Heroism
Tagged: Joni Mitchell, Love, How to be a writer, Artists
“Mitchell writes about emotional information: who controls it, and how it is squandered or hoarded, withheld or weaponized. This requires some reconnaissance, which for Mitchell involves falling in and out of love, over and over—not so much a research method as a form of self-surgery.”
— Dan Chiasson, Joni Mitchell’s Openhearted Heroism
Tagged: Joni Mitchell, Love, How to be a writer, Artists
“Back in 1957
We had to dance a foot apart
And they hawk-eyed us from the sidelines
Holding their rulers without a heart
And so with just a touch of our fingers
I could make our circuitry explode
All we ever wanted
Was just to come in from the cold”
— Joni Mitchell, Come In From The Cold
Tagged: Joni Mitchell
“Tomorrow is Sunday
Now there's only one day left to go
Till you walk by
Below my window
The weekends drive me mad
Holidays are oh too sad
'Cause you don't go
Below my window

No one knows I'm here
One day I just disappeared
And I took these two grey rooms up here
With a view
When you walk by
Below my window”
— Joni Mitchell, Two Grey Rooms
Tagged: Joni Mitchell
“It came to pass
Like lightening striking from above
Electric flash
Like lightening striking from above
Struck by precious love
Precious, precious love
So hopeless and so inspired
Why do you dream flat tires?
When you dream flat tires
You dream flat tires”
— Joni Mitchell, You Dream Flat Tires
Tagged: Joni Mitchell
“Moons and Junes and ferris wheels, the dizzy dancing way that you feel
as every fairy tale comes real; I've looked at love that way.
But now it's just another show. You leave 'em laughing when you go
and if you care, don't let them know, don't give yourself away.”
— Joni Mitchell, Both Sides Now
Tagged: Joni Mitchell
“I am on a lonely road and I am traveling
traveling, traveling, traveling
Looking for something, what can it be?
Oh i hate you some, I hate you some
I love you some
I love you when I forget about me
I want to be strong I want to laugh along
I want to belong to the living
Alive, alive, want to get up and jive
wreck my stockings in some juke box dive
Do you want- do you want- do you want
to dance with me baby
do you want to take a chance
on maybe finding some sweet romance with me baby
well come on”
— Joni Mitchell, All I Want
Tagged: Joni Mitchell
“Sometimes I'm happy
Sometimes I'm blue
My disposition depends on you
I never mind the rain from the skies
As long as I have the sun in your eyes
Sometimes I love you
Sometimes I hate you
When I hate you
It's because I love you
That's how I am
So what can I do
I'm happy when I'm with you.”
— Joni Mitchell, Sometimes I'm Happy
Tagged: Joni Mitchell
“Don't know why
There's no sun up in the sky
Stormy weather
Since my man and I ain't together
Keeps rainin' all of the time
Life is bare
Gloom and misery everywhere
Stormy weather
Just can't get my poor self together
I'm weary all the time
All the time”
— Joni Mitchell, Stormy Weather
Tagged: Joni Mitchell
“I took a house by the water
Took a man on a mountainside
Pretty house by the water
Lovely lover by the waterside
Last time I saw that man
Hung down his head and cried”
— Joni Mitchell, A Bird That Whistles
Tagged: Joni Mitchell
“Sitting in a park in Paris, France
Reading the news and it sure looks bad
They won't give peace a chance
That was just a dream some of us had
Still a lot of land to see
But I wouldn't stay here
It's too old and cold and settled in its ways here.
Oh, but California
California, I'm coming home
I'm going to see the folks I dig
I'll even kiss a sunset pig
California, I'm coming home.”
— Joni Mitchell, California
Tagged: Joni Mitchell
“No regrets Coyote
We just come from such different sets of circumstance
I'm up all night in the studios
And you're up early on your ranch
You'll be brushing out a brood mare's tail
While the sun is ascending
And I'll just be getting home with my reel to reel
There's no comprehending
Just how close to the bone & the skin & the eyes
And the lips you can get
And still feel so alone
And still feel related
Like stations in some relay
You're not a hit and run driver
No no
Racing away.”
— Joni Mitchell, Coyote
Tagged: Joni Mitchell
“If you're driving into town with a dark cloud above you
Dial in the number who's bound to love you
Oh honey you turn me on, I'm a radio
I'm a country station, I'm a little bit corny
I'm a wide open flower, waiting for you
I'm a broadcasting tower waving for you.”
— Joni Mitchell, You Turn Me on, I'm A Radio
Tagged: Joni Mitchell

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