That's one thing that's always, like, been a difference between, like, the performing arts, and being a painter, you know. A painter does a painting, and he paints it, and that's it, you know. He has the joy of creating it, it hangs on a wall, and somebody buys it, and maybe somebody buys it again, or maybe nobody buys it and it sits up in a loft somewhere until he dies. But he never, you know, nobody ever, nobody ever said to Van Gogh, 'Paint a Starry Night again, man!' You know? He painted it and that was it.
Joni MitchellBuddy Holly and the early rock 'n' roll was no lighter than the way I play. It's very minimal.
Joni MitchellThe thing that started me painting originally was seeing Bambi when I was about nine. I was incredibly disturbed by the forest fire that killed Bambi's mother, and that distress gave me the impulse to create something, as a way of dealing with it.
Joni MitchellInside 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.
Joni MitchellThe Blue album, thereโs hardly a dishonest note in the vocals. At that period of my life, I had no personal defenses. I felt like a cellophane wrapper on a pack of cigarettes. I felt like I had absolutely no secrets from the world and I couldnโt pretend in my life to be strong. Or to be happy. But the advantage of it in the music was that there were no defenses there, either.
Joni Mitchell