Joni Mitchell Quotes & Sayings (Page 5)

“My goal as a writer is more to comfort than to disturb.”

“Not to dismiss Gershwin, but Gershwin is the chip; Ellington was the block.”

“In New York, the street adventures are incredible. There are a thousand stories in a single block. You see the stories in the people's faces. You hear the songs immediately. Here in Los Angeles, there are less characters because they're all inside automobiles.”

“Drag wasn't always counterculture.”

“I lost my daughter at 21. I had to give her up because I was broke, no place to take her, no money to take her. That was very traumatic.”

“I'm not a pitiable creature. It's just that I suffer very eloquently.”

“Ira Gershwin, shame on him. I mean, some of the writing.”

“My life came down to being a granny and watching a lot of television.”

“I don't understand why Europeans and South Americans can take more sophistication. Why is it that Americans need to hear their happiness major and their tragedy minor, and as jazzy as they can handle is a seventh chord? Are they not experiencing complex emotions?”

“There was this mountain village in Russia where my music was getting in on some German radio station. I remember this because music used to get up to Saskatchewan from Texas. Late at night after the local station closed down.”