Joni Mitchell Quotes - Page 10

Fear is like the wilderland - Stepping stones or sinking sand

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

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

Musically, I don't think I'd ever dry up. I trust my musical invention.

I wanted to paint in a folk-artist-y way. My heroes were Van Gogh, Gauguin, Matisse, and Rembrandt. I think Picasso is about as a modern as I got. But I incorporated things that they rejected as well as movements that happened later.

I try not to steal from myself, but the modalities create similarities.

I'd had a rough childhood.

I get the urge for going/But I never seem to go.

I've got 50 different tunings in the guitar.

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

Everyone I know has attention deficit, and they say it with great pride. It's a bad time to be right.

I couldn't see passion as a bad thing.

My individual, psychological descent coincided, ironically, with my ascent into the public eye.

The rock & roll industry is very incestuous, and we have all been close at one time or another. A lot of beautiful music and a lot of beautiful times came from that. A lot of pain, too, because, inevitably, different relationships broke up.

Drag wasn't always counterculture.

I certainly don't want to be an angry old artist.

I'm drinking champagne, got the head phones up high, can't numb you out.

I used to be monastic, almost. Now I'm like a Tibetan that has discovered hamburgers and television. I'm catching up on Americana.

Oh it gets so lonely When you're walking And the streets are full of strangers

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 came through folk music simply because it was easy to get into it.

I conceived in art college at the age of 20, near the end of term.

I get the same charge from juxtaposition of colors as I do from juxtaposition of chords.

I was young for my age. Not as naïve as they expected. I don't know why I seem to bring that out in people.

You feed it all your woes, the ghostly garden grows.