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
Everyone I know has attention deficit, and they say it with great pride. It's a bad time to be right.
But now it's just another show, you leave em laughing when you go. And if you care, don't let them know, don't give yourself away.
I paint my joy and I sing my sorrow.
Unlike some of my peers, I haven't really hit a writer's block. When I hit a block I just paint, which is an old crop rotation trick.
I wish I had a river I could skate away on?
In some ways, my gift for music and writing was born out of tragedy, really, and loss.
There'll be icicles and birthday clothes And sometimes there'll be sorrow
I can't remember anything I ever wrote.
When you reach that kind of successful pinnacle, it is the nature of the business and the press and everything that they go about tearing you down.
They paved paradise and put up a parkin lot With a pink hotel, a boutique, and a swingin' hot spot Don't it always seem to go That you don't know what you got till it's gone
My individual, psychological descent coincided, ironically, with my ascent into the public eye.
When I think of your kisses my mind see-saws.
Do you want - do you want - do you want to dance with me baby?
Oh it gets so lonely When you're walking And the streets are full of strangers