Joni Mitchell

Secrets and sharing soda,It's second hand.

— Joni Mitchell

Some are friendlySome are standing in the centre giving to get something.

— Joni Mitchell

Laughing and crying, you know it's the same release.

— Joni Mitchell

Friends have told her "Not so proud"Harder and harder just to be nice.

— Joni Mitchell

It's coming on Christmas,I could skate away on

— Joni Mitchell

Joni, you have more class than Richard Nixon, Mick Jagger, and Gomer Pyle combined!

— Joni Mitchell

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.

— Joni Mitchell

The considerations of a corporation, especially now, have nothing to do with art or music.

— Joni Mitchell

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?

— Joni Mitchell

I need to explore and discover and so that has given me, really, to some what seems like courage, but really it's just in my stars, there's nothing I can do about it . . . . I guess I'll just take my award and run now.

— Joni Mitchell

I don't like being too looked up at or too looked down on. I prefer meeting in the middle to being worshipped or spat out.

— Joni Mitchell

Any time I make a record it's followed by a painting period. It's good crop rotation.

— Joni Mitchell

I was demanding of myself a deeper and greater honesty, more and more revelation in my work in order to give it back to the people where it goes into their lives and nourishes them and changes their direction and makes light bulbs go off in their head and makes them feel. And it isn't vague, it strikes against the very nerves of their life and in order to do that you have to strike against the very nerves of your own.

— Joni Mitchell

There's been a tremendous amount of growth. An actress is not expected to continue to play her ingenue roles, you know, I've written myself roles to grow into gracefully, but there is no growing into gracefully in the pop world. Basically the reason I'm so unruly in this business is because I never wanted to be a human jukebox.

— Joni Mitchell

In our possessive coupling These things that you and I suppressed.

— Joni Mitchell

You go down to the pick up station And your loneliness.

— Joni Mitchell

Oh, you're in my blood like holy wine, I would still be on my feet.

— Joni Mitchell

Rows and flows of angel hair, But clouds got in my way.

— Joni Mitchell

I’ve looked at clouds from both sides now, I really don’t know clouds at all.

— Joni Mitchell

Tears and fears and feeling proud, In living ev’ry day.

— Joni Mitchell

I’ve looked at love from both sides now I really don’t know love at all.

— Joni Mitchell

And the seasons they go round and round, In the circle game.

— Joni Mitchell

I came upon a child of god, I’m going to try an’ get my soul free.

— Joni Mitchell

I don't know who I am / but you know, life is for learning.

— Joni Mitchell

I see music as fluid architecture.

— Joni Mitchell

We are stardust, Back to the garden.

— Joni Mitchell

By the time we got to Woodstock Above our nation.

— Joni Mitchell

They paved paradise and a swinging hot spot.

— Joni Mitchell

Don't it always seem to go And put up a parking lot.

— Joni Mitchell

They took all the trees A dollar and a half just to see 'em.

— Joni Mitchell

Hey farmer, farmer, Please!

— Joni Mitchell

I wanna be strong, Wanna wreck my stockings in some jukebox dive.

— Joni Mitchell