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
Drag wasn't always counterculture.
If you're smart or rich or lucky Maybe you'll beat the laws of man But the inner laws of spirit And the outer laws of nature No man can
He saw my complications and he mirrored me back simplified, and we laughed how our perfect world would always be denied.
I'm not a kiss-and-teller. I never named names.
They'll crucify you for staying the same, and they'll crucify you for change. I'd rather be crucified for changing.
We'll laugh and toast to nothing, and smash our empty glasses down.
I get the urge for going/But I never seem to go,
The rock & roll industry is very incestuous, and we have all been close at one time or another. A lot of beautiful music and a lot of beautiful times came from that. A lot of pain, too, because, inevitably, different relationships broke up.
I learned from admiration and osmosis.
Fame is a series of misunderstandin gs surrounding a name.
I see bodies as individual things,
I'm your biggest fan, California, I'm coming home
When you're trying to pass on the best of the stuff you're culling to what should be a hungry culture but you have it diminished... that's kind of disappointing.
Eventually, with success, I started to feel more and more isolated - like I didn't have a community of artists.