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
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.
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.
You snipe so steady, you snub so snide, so rip and ready to diminish and deride.
Land of snap decisions, land of short attention spans, nothing is savored long enough to really understand.
The land of litigation, the courts are like game shows. Take what's behind the curtain the jury cries.
I met a redneck on a Grecian isle who did the Goat Dance very well.
You feed it all your woes, the ghostly garden grows.
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.
Heart and humor and humility, he said will lighten up your heavy load.
We call for the three great stimulants of the exhausted ones, artifice, brutality, and innocence.
Does the moon play only silver when it strums the galaxy?
I like to move around. I travel. I've driven across country by myself.