Joni Mitchell Quotes

Acid, booze, and ass, needles, guns, and grass, lots of laughs.

Morgellons is constantly morphing. There are times when it's directly attacking the nervous system, as if you're being bitten by fleas and lice. It's all in the tissue and it's not a hallucination. It was eating me alive, sucking the juices out. I've been sick all my life.

Rationally I have no hope, irrationally I believe in miracles.

I hang my laundry on the line when I write.

I try not to steal from myself, but the modalities create similarities.

For the first time in my career, I'm working in a fine-arts arena, so I'm finally getting some intelligent reviews.

Fly silly sea bird, no dreams can possess you, no voices can blame you for sun on your wings.

I'm a fine artist working in a commercial arena, so that's my cross to bear

There's a man who's been out sailing In a decade full of dreams And he takes her to a schooner And he treats her like a queen Bearing beads from California With their amber stones and green He has called her from the harbor He has kissed her with his freedom He has heard her off to starboard In the breaking and the breathing Of the water weeds While she was busy being free

I was anti-intellectual to the nth. Basically I liked to dance and paint, and that was about it.

Inside your own self pity there you swim, in sinking down to drown her voice still haunts you, and only with your laughter can you win.

You can give me 400,000 hostile people and I won't even break sweat. If you give me 200 adoring people, my mouth will dry out.

Elusive dreams and vague desires fanned to fiery needs by deadly deeds of falling empires.

You 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.

Nobody understood The Reoccurring Dream, but after September 11, when we were coerced to do a national duty and go out and shop, surely people could begin to see what I was getting at.

The land of litigation, the courts are like game shows. Take what's behind the curtain the jury cries.

You've got to shake your fists at lightning now, you've got to roar like forest fire You've got to spread your light like blazes all across the sky They're going to aim the hoses on you, show 'em you won't expire Not till you burn up every passion, not even when you die Come on now, you've got to try, if you're feeling contempt, well then you tell it If you're tired of the silent night, Jesus, well then you yell it Condemned to wires and hammers, strike every chord that you feel That broken trees and elephant ivories conceal

I never loved a man as far as I could pitch my shoe.

I don't know how to sell out. If I tried to sell out I don't think I could.

My individual, psychological descent coincided, ironically, with my ascent into the public eye.

I find a lot of poetry to be narcissistic.

Do you see how you hurt me, baby? So I hurt you too. Then we both get so blue. I am on a lonely road and I am traveling, looking for the key to set me free.

I see music as fluid architecture.

everything comes and goes; pleasure moves on too early and trouble leaves too slow

I loved Debussy, Stravinsky, Chopin, Tchaikovsky, anything with romantic melodies, especially the nocturnes. Nietzsche was a hero, especially with Thus Spoke Zarathustra. He gets a bad rap; hes very misunderstood. Hes a maker of individuals, and he was a teacher of teachers.

We call for the three great stimulants of the exhausted ones, artifice, brutality, and innocence.

We love our lovin'....but not like we love our freedom.

Fibers in a variety of colors protrude out of my skin like mushrooms after a rainstorm. They cannot be forensically identified as animal, vegetable or mineral.

My parents told me I'd point to a bed of flowers and say 'Pink. Pretty,' before I knew any other words.

In terms of fiction, I'd rather go out and have a good time than read a book about someone having a good or bad time.

The times you impress me the most are the times when you don't try.

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.

But 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.

Happiness is the best facelift.

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.

When I began experimenting, people weren't ready for it. Once it's in its second and third generational stages, people can accept it.

Will you take me as I am? Strung out on another man...California, I'm comin' home.

Whatever it was that I felt was the weak link in my previous project gave me inspiration for the next one.

You win the lasting laurels with your laughter.

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

I've looked at life from both sides now...from win and lose, and still somehow it's life's illusions I recall I really don't know life at all.

I could drink a case of you, darlin'...and I would still be on my feet, yes I would still be on my feet.

My style of songwriting is influenced by cinema. I'm a frustrated filmmaker. A fan once said to me, 'Girl, you make me see pictures in my head!' and I took that as a great compliment. That's exactly my intention.

You snipe so steady, you snub so snide, so rip and ready to diminish and deride.

Moons and Junes and Ferris wheels The dizzy dancing way you feel As every fairy tale comes real I've looked at love that way.

Musically, I don't think I'd ever dry up. I trust my musical invention.

I'm a little young for retirement.

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