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
Edith Piaf knocked my socks off when I was 8, but I didn't know what she was singing about.
I'm a very analytical person, a somewhat introspective person; that's the nature of the work I do.
I used to be monastic, almost. Now I'm like a Tibetan that has discovered hamburgers and television. I'm catching up on Americana.
I do have this reputation for being a serious person.
I come from pioneer stock, developers of the West, people who went out into the wilderness and set up home with nothing but a pair of oxen.
I came through folk music simply because it was easy to get into it.
I get the same charge from juxtaposition of colors as I do from juxtaposition of chords.
You have this mounting aggressive ignorance with the rabbit's foot of their particular religion. You don't really have any kind of spiritual law, just a kind of a rabid mental illness. The songs are a little slice of life.
Van Gogh was impulsive.
We love our lovin'....but not like we love our freedom.
White rhythm is waltzes, marches, and the polka. In Africa, rhythm is used for a celebratory groove, but white rhythm doesn't have such an enormous vocabulary of spirits. It's basically militant.
It's life's illusions that I recall, I really don't know life at all
Fear is like the wilderland - Stepping stones or sinking sand
Don't it always seem to go, that you don't know what you've got till it's gone.