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
There are things to confess that enrich the world, and things that need not be said.
Happiness is the best facelift.
I'm a fine artist working in a commercial arena, so that's my cross to bear
My heart is broken in the face of the stupidity of my species.
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.
Fly silly sea bird, no dreams can possess you, no voices can blame you for sun on your wings.
If you see yourself as a kingly type, then you need your serfs and your army and someone around you.
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.
So many things I would have done, but clouds got in my way.
They paved paradise and put up a parking lot.
I could drink a case of you, darlin'...and I would still be on my feet, yes I would still be on my feet...
Augustine, Anne Sexton and Sylvia Plath are confessional writers and all three make me sick. I have nothing in common with them.
You know that it never has been easy Whether you do or do not resign Whether you travel the breadth of the extremities Or stick to some straighter line.
I'd had a rough childhood.