Joni Mitchell Quotes & Sayings (Page 4)

“Buddy Holly and the early rock 'n' roll was no lighter than the way I play. It's very minimal.”

“I don't like to make fluffy little songs, but now I want to make some light songs.”

“No one likes to have less than they had before. That's the nature of the human animal.”

“We have a war dictator who was not elected, he snuck in. so he punishes people that threaten him in any way, or even say something he doesn't like. It has no resemblance to democracy.”

“I'm a night owl.”

“When I came to California, it was the mecca of the world. Every young person on the planet wanted to be here.”

“Back then, I didn't have a big organization around me. I was just a kid with a guitar, traveling around. My responsibility basically was to the art, and I had extra time on my hands. There is no extra time now. There isn't enough time.”

“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.”

“Fame is a series of misunderstandings surrounding a name.”

“I always thought the women of song don't get along, and I don't know why that is.”