Joni Mitchell - Best Quotes

War

We 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.

We 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.

War

We 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.

Joni Mitchell

We 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.

Sympathy

Sorrow is so easy to express and yet so hard to tell.

Joni Mitchell

Sorrow is so easy to express and yet so hard to tell.

Success

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

Joni Mitchell

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

Respect

I see the entire world as Eden and every time you take an inch of it away you must do so with respect.

Joni Mitchell

I see the entire world as Eden and every time you take an inch of it away you must do so with respect.

Religion

You have this mounting aggressive ignorance with the rabbit's foot of their particular religion. You don't really have any kind of spiritual law just a kind of a rabid mental illness. The songs are a little slice of life.

Joni Mitchell

You have this mounting aggressive ignorance with the rabbit's foot of their particular religion. You don't really have any kind of spiritual law just a kind of a rabid mental illness. The songs are a little slice of life.

Poetry

I find a lot of poetry to be narcissistic.

Joni Mitchell

I find a lot of poetry to be narcissistic.

Nature

The thing that gave me the most pain in life psychologically and it gave me tremendous pain psychologically is man's disrespect for nature.

Joni Mitchell

The thing that gave me the most pain in life psychologically and it gave me tremendous pain psychologically is man's disrespect for nature.

Nature

I'm a very analytical person a somewhat introspective person that's the nature of the work I do.

Joni Mitchell

I'm a very analytical person a somewhat introspective person that's the nature of the work I do.

Nature

No one likes to have less than they had before. That's the nature of the human animal.

Joni Mitchell

No one likes to have less than they had before. That's the nature of the human animal.

Music

I came through folk music simply because it was easy to get into it.

Joni Mitchell

I came through folk music simply because it was easy to get into it.

Music

To enjoy my music you need depth and emotionality.

Joni Mitchell

To enjoy my music you need depth and emotionality.

Hot Quotes

In my world history comes down to language and art. No one cares much about what battles were fought who won them and who lost them – unless there is a painting a play a song or a poem that speaks of the event.

A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that everyone believes he has the biggest piece.

Wushu is a move in Chinese a physical move. An attack. Wushu is like an art.

My first love is art and I see a lot of things in an artistic way.

The idea of avant-garde art is a very suspicious thing to me the idea that poetry is new and it keeps being new the way Chevrolets every year are new.

Any work that aspires however humbly to the condition of art should carry its justification in every line.

When thou art at Rome do as they do at Rome.

Rock isn't art it's the way ordinary people talk.

Tell me thy company and I'll tell thee what thou art.

Book-jacket design may become a lost art like album-cover design without which late-20th-century iconography would have been pauperized.

Art is nature speeded up and God slowed down.

Author: Joni Mitchell

We 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.

We 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.

Sorrow is so easy to express and yet so hard to tell.

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

I see the entire world as Eden and every time you take an inch of it away you must do so with respect.

You have this mounting aggressive ignorance with the rabbit's foot of their particular religion. You don't really have any kind of spiritual law just a kind of a rabid mental illness. The songs are a little slice of life.

I find a lot of poetry to be narcissistic.

The thing that gave me the most pain in life psychologically and it gave me tremendous pain psychologically is man's disrespect for nature.

I'm a very analytical person a somewhat introspective person that's the nature of the work I do.

No one likes to have less than they had before. That's the nature of the human animal.

I came through folk music simply because it was easy to get into it.

To enjoy my music you need depth and emotionality.