Joni Mitchell Quotes - Page 2

All I really, really want our love to do is to bring out the best in me and in you too.

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?

I am a woman of heart and mind, looking for affection and respect, a little passion.

In some ways, my gift for music and writing was born out of tragedy, really, and loss.

They'll crucify you for staying the same, and they'll crucify you for change. I'd rather be crucified for changing.

The times you impress me the most are the times when you don't try.

All romantics meet the same fate some day. Drunk and cynical and boring someone in some dark cafe.

I learned a woman is never an old woman.

Yesterday a child came out to wonder Caught a dragonfly inside a jar Fearful when the sky was full of thunder And tearful at the falling of a star

I was demanding of myself a deeper and greater honesty, more and more revelation in my work in order to give it back to the people where it goes into their lives and nourishes them and changes their direction and makes light bulbs go off in their head and makes them feel. And it isn't vague, it strikes against the very nerves of their life and in order to do that you have to strike against the very nerves of your own.

I loved Debussy, Stravinsky, Chopin, Tchaikovsky, anything with romantic melodies, especially the nocturnes. Nietzsche was a hero, especially with Thus Spoke Zarathustra. He gets a bad rap; hes very misunderstood. Hes a maker of individuals, and he was a teacher of teachers.

Lord, there's danger in this land, you get witch hunts and wars when church and state hold hands.

The thing that gave me the most pain in life, psychologically, and it gave me tremendous pain psychologically, is man's disrespect for nature.

The only thing I have to give to make you smile, to win you with, are all the mornings still to live.

You've got to shake your fists at lightning now, you've got to roar like forest fire You've got to spread your light like blazes all across the sky They're going to aim the hoses on you, show 'em you won't expire Not till you burn up every passion, not even when you die Come on now, you've got to try, if you're feeling contempt, well then you tell it If you're tired of the silent night, Jesus, well then you yell it Condemned to wires and hammers, strike every chord that you feel That broken trees and elephant ivories conceal

Let light hearts remake us.

I don't know who I am but you know, life is for learning.

How does a person create a song? A lot of it is being open to encounter and to be in touch with the miraculous.

Happiness is the best facelift.

They won't give peace a chance, that's just a dream some of us had

I thrive on change. That's probably why my chord changes are weird, because chords depict emotions. They'll be going along on one key and I'll drop off a cliff, and suddenly they will go into a whole other key signature. That will drive some people crazy, but that's how my life is.

Oh, the jealousy, the greed is the unraveling. It's the unraveling and it undoes all the joy that could be. .

The Blue album, there’s hardly a dishonest note in the vocals. At that period of my life, I had no personal defenses. I felt like a cellophane wrapper on a pack of cigarettes. I felt like I had absolutely no secrets from the world and I couldn’t pretend in my life to be strong. Or to be happy. But the advantage of it in the music was that there were no defenses there, either.

To enjoy my music, you need depth and emotionality.

You can give me 400,000 hostile people and I won't even break sweat. If you give me 200 adoring people, my mouth will dry out.