Joni Mitchell
Joni Mitchell
Roberta Joan "Joni" Mitchell, CCis a Canadian singer-songwriter and painter. Mitchell's work is highly respected by critics, and she has deeply influenced fellow musicians in a diverse range of genres. Rolling Stone has called her "one of the greatest songwriters ever", and AllMusic has stated, "When the dust settles, Joni Mitchell may stand as the most important and influential female recording artist of the late 20th century". Her lyrics are noted for their developed poetics, addressing social and environmental ideals...
NationalityCanadian
ProfessionMusician
Date of Birth7 November 1943
CountryCanada
Woke up, it was a Chelsea morning, and the first thing that I knew there was milk and toast and honey and a bowl of oranges, too.
everything comes and goes; pleasure moves on too early and trouble leaves too slow
I met a woman She had a mouth like yours She knew your life She knew your devils and your deeds And she said "Go to him, stay with him if you can But be prepared to bleed
Daydreamin' drugs the pain of living.
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
He's swept with the broom of contempt and the rooms have an empty ring.
All romantics meet the same fate some day. Drunk and cynical and boring someone in some dark cafe.
Innocence is drowned in anarchy. The best lack conviction given time to think, and the worst are full of passion without mercy.
Something's lost, but something's gained, in living everyday.
The bands and the roadies, love 'em and leave 'em. It's pleasure to try 'em, but trouble to keep 'em.
Some get the gravy, some get the gristle.
They used to laugh at me when I refused to ride on all those double decker buses, all because there was no driver on the top.
I have always thought of myself as a painter derailed by circumstance.
With a painting, you don't have to go back and paint it again.