To enjoy my music you need depth and emotionality.
To enjoy my music you need depth and emotionality.
Author: Joni Mitchell
In some ways my gift for music and writing was born out of tragedy really and loss.
In some ways my gift for music and writing was born out of tragedy really and loss.
There was this mountain village in Russia where my music was getting in on some German radio station. I remember this because music used to get up to Saskatchewan from Texas. Late at night after the local station closed down.
There was this mountain village in Russia where my music was getting in on some German radio station. I remember this because music used to get up to Saskatchewan from Texas. Late at night after the local station closed down.
I 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.
I 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.
I come from pioneer stock developers of the West people who went out into the wilderness and set up home with nothing but a pair of oxen.
I come from pioneer stock developers of the West people who went out into the wilderness and set up home with nothing but a pair of oxen.
I 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?
I 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?
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.
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.
I 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 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 hate show business.
I hate show business.
Back 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.
Back 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.
I see music as fluid architecture.
I see music as fluid architecture.
I conceived in art college at the age of 20 near the end of term.
I conceived in art college at the age of 20 near the end of term.