Joni MitchellAll romantics meet the same fate some day. Drunk and cynical and boring someone in some dark cafe.361Time
Joni MitchellIn some ways, my gift for music and writing was born out of tragedy, really, and loss.372Sadness
Joni Mitchellpeople will tell you were they have gone, they'll tell you where to go, but until you get there for yourself you never really know.351Humanity
Joni MitchellAmerica is in a runaway-train position and dragging all the world with it. It's grotesquely mentally ill.351Truth
Joni MitchellAn unhappy mother does not raise a happy child. ✨ Both Sides at Last by Bill Higgins, articles.latimes.com. April 08, 1997.362Time
Joni MitchellI'm irresponsible to my career in order to paint. Because painting is obsessive. I forget to eat. I forget to sleep.341Sadness
Joni MitchellBut 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. ✨ Song: Both Sides, Now374Humor
Joni MitchellKeep 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.342LifeLove
Joni MitchellWe love our lovin'....but not like we love our freedom. ✨ Song: Help Me, Album: Court and Spark375Love
Joni MitchellThe Blue album, there’s hardly a dishonest note in the vocals. At that period of my life, I had no personal defenses. I felt like a cellophane wrapper on a pack of cigarettes. I f… ▶332LifeTruth
Joni MitchellFear is like the wilderland - Stepping stones or sinking sand332Sadness
Joni MitchellIt's life's illusions that I recall, I really don't know life at all354Life
Joni MitchellI lost my daughter at 21. I had to give her up because I was broke, no place to take her, no money to take her. That was very traumatic.377Hope
Joni MitchellI heard someone from the music business saying they are no longer looking for talent, they want people with a certain look and a willingness to cooperate.366Humanity
Joni MitchellWhen I came to California, it was the mecca of the world. Every young person on the planet wanted to be here. ✨ Joni on Point. Interview With Nic Harcourt, www.latimes.com. … ▶366Time
Joni MitchellSorrow is so easy to express and yet so hard to tell.344Sadness
Joni MitchellAll 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.323Love
Joni MitchellI heard someone from the music business saying they are no longer looking for talent, they want people with a certain look and a willingness to cooperate. I thought, that's intere… ▶301HumanityReflectionSadness
Joni MitchellI get the urge for going/But I never seem to go. ✨ Song: Urge For Going, Album: Hits312Life
Joni MitchellNo one likes to have less than they had before. That's the nature of the human animal.345Humanity
Joni MitchellI see music as fluid architecture. ✨ POP MUSIC; Joni Mitchell Finds the Peace of Middle Age by Stephen Holden. Archives, www.nytimes.com. 1991.312Time
Joni Mitchellyou dont know what you got till its gone368Truth
Joni MitchellWhat I do is unusual: chordal movements that have never been used before, changing keys and modalities mid-song. ✨ It's a Joni Mitchell concert, sans Joni. Interview Wi… ▶368DeathTime
Joni MitchellI see the entire world as Eden, and every time you take an inch of it away, you must do so with respect.368Time
Joni MitchellAmericans have decided to be stupid and shallow since 1980. ✨ It's a Joni Mitchell concert, sans Joni. Interview with Matt Diehl, articles.latimes.com. April 22, 2010.<… ▶357DeathTime
Joni MitchellWon't you stay We'll put on the day And we'll talk in present tenses ✨ Song: Chelsea Morning358Time
Joni MitchellIf I'm censoring for anyone, it's for my parents. They are very old-fashioned and moral people. They still don't understand me that well.281Humanity
Joni MitchellYou 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 … ▶292Time
Joni MitchellChase away the demons, and they will take the angels with them.326Humor
Joni MitchellYou know, Neil Young is singing Rock n' roll will never die, and Neil never rocked and rolled in his life. I mean, he rocked, but he didn't roll. He has got no swing in him.348DeathLife
