KeenBrain
KeenBrain
KeenBrain

Joni Mitchell Quotes


Share this page on

Quotes by Joni Mitchell

Showing 31-40 of 104 Quotes by Joni Mitchell

Rachmaninoff made a musician out of me. His 'Rhapsody on a Theme by Paganini' was the piece that sent me into raptures. It spoke to me. To me, it was a tender entreaty for the misunderstood.

~Joni Mitchell

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


My heart is broken in the face of the stupidity of my species.

~Joni Mitchell

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


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.

~Joni Mitchell

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


At the point where I'm trying to force something and it's not happening, and I'm getting frustrated with, say, writing a poem, I can go and pick up the brushes and start painting. At the point where the painting seems to not be going anywhere, I go and pick up the guitar.

~Joni Mitchell

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


I've got 50 different tunings in the guitar.

~Joni Mitchell

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


When you're trying to pass on the best of the stuff you're culling to what should be a hungry culture but you have it diminished... that's kind of disappointing.

~Joni Mitchell

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


This is a nation that has lost the ability to be self-critical, and that makes a lie out of the freedoms.

~Joni Mitchell

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


Everyone I know has attention deficit, and they say it with great pride. It's a bad time to be right.

~Joni Mitchell

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


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.

~Joni Mitchell

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


The Beginning of Survival is my best album. I am very proud of it, and I am surprised at it, too. I thought some of Travelogue was a little heavy, but I don't think this is heavy.

~Joni Mitchell

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


Biography

Nationality: Canadian

Type: Musician

Born: November 7th, 1943

Links

Find Joni Mitchell on Amazon

Related Authors

Nicole Appleton
Maynard Ferguson
Maureen Forrester
Chrystia Freeland
Emm Gryner
Garth Hudson
Kiesza
Tyler Shaw
Bria Skonberg
Pat Travers

Popular Authors

Andrew Carnegie Confucius Charles Dickens Alexander Hamilton Abraham Maslow Rosa Parks Twiggy Frank Lloyd Wright

Change your beliefs...change your life.

Get a related quote or insight every day.

(it's 100% free)

Follow Us On

Today's Birthdays

1882 - Franklin D. Roosevelt

1775 - Walter Savage Landor

1781 - Adelbert Von Chamisso

1846 - F. H. Bradley

1866 - Gelett Burgess

1909 - Saul Alinsky

1912 - Francis Schaeffer

1912 - Barbara Tuchman

1912 - Barbara W. Tuchman

1919 - Fred Korematsu

Birthdays on January 30th
All Birthdays

Popular Topics

Brainy Courage Education Forgiveness Graduation Patriotism Power Success