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
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.
My life came down to being a granny and watching a lot of television.
I couldn't see passion as a bad thing.
I've got 50 different tunings in the guitar.
I assume there must be some kind of genetic thrust. My two grandmothers were very different, but both of them were frustrated musicians.
I'm not a pitiable creature. It's just that I suffer very eloquently.
I certainly don't want to be an angry old artist.
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.
I'm a painter first, and a musician second.
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.
Drag wasn't always counterculture.
He saw my complications and he mirrored me back simplified, and we laughed how our perfect world would always be denied.
They'll crucify you for staying the same, and they'll crucify you for change. I'd rather be crucified for changing.