Joni Mitchell Quotes & Sayings (Page 9)

“Paul Simon started piling up a lot of words, more than the bar could handle, and I stopped!”

“The songwriting was almost like something I did while I was waiting for my daughter to come back.”

“What I do is unusual: chordal movements that have never been used before, changing keys and modalities mid-song.”

“At the point where I'm trying to force something and it's not happening, and I'm getting frustrated with, say, writing a poem, I can go and pick up the brushes and start painting. At the point where the painting seems to not be going anywhere, I go and pick up the guitar.”

“My first four albums covered the usual youth problems - looking for love in all the wrong places - while the next five are basically about being in your 30s.”

“The Beginning of Survival is my best album. I am very proud of it, and I am surprised at it, too. I thought some of Travelogue was a little heavy, but I don't think this is heavy.”

“The coming of the kids hasn't come out in my art yet.”

“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.”

“The God of the Old Testament is the depiction of evil.”

“I do have this reputation for being a serious person.”