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
I'd had a rough childhood.
My life came down to being a granny and watching a lot of television.
I wanted to paint in a folk-artist-y way. My heroes were Van Gogh, Gauguin, Matisse, and Rembrandt. I think Picasso is about as a modern as I got. But I incorporated things that they rejected as well as movements that happened later.
I couldn't see passion as a bad thing.
The God of the Old Testament is the depiction of evil.
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.
My parents told me I'd point to a bed of flowers and say 'Pink. Pretty,' before I knew any other words.
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.
I find a lot of poetry to be narcissistic.
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.