Joni Mitchell Quotes - Page 3

I love you when I forget about me.

They paved paradise and put up a parkin lot With a pink hotel, a boutique, and a swingin' hot spot Don't it always seem to go That you don't know what you got till it's gone

Moons and Junes and Ferris wheels The dizzy dancing way you feel As every fairy tale comes real I've looked at love that way.

If you're smart or rich or lucky Maybe you'll beat the laws of man But the inner laws of spirit And the outer laws of nature No man can

everything comes and goes; pleasure moves on too early and trouble leaves too slow

Americans have decided to be stupid and shallow since 1980.

They took all the trees and put them in a tree museum.

Love is touching souls.

Fly silly sea bird, no dreams can possess you, no voices can blame you for sun on your wings.

The thing that started me painting originally was seeing Bambi when I was about nine. I was incredibly disturbed by the forest fire that killed Bambi's mother, and that distress gave me the impulse to create something, as a way of dealing with it.

Whatever it was that I felt was the weak link in my previous project gave me inspiration for the next one.

Land of snap decisions, land of short attention spans, nothing is savored long enough to really understand.

When I think of your kisses my mind see-saws.

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.

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

If you see yourself as a kingly type, then you need your serfs and your army and so on around you.

Give me spots on my apples, but leave me the birds and the bees, please.

My childhood was very difficult. I had every childhood disease and then some, but my parents didnt mollycoddle me. They left me to fight those battles on my own. I guess that was very Canadian, very stoic. But its good. I had to become a warrior. I had to give up hope and find a substitute for hope that would be far more stable.

That's one thing that's always, like, been a difference between, like, the performing arts, and being a painter, you know. A painter does a painting, and he paints it, and that's it, you know. He has the joy of creating it, it hangs on a wall, and somebody buys it, and maybe somebody buys it again, or maybe nobody buys it and it sits up in a loft somewhere until he dies. But he never, you know, nobody ever, nobody ever said to Van Gogh, 'Paint a Starry Night again, man!' You know? He painted it and that was it.

I wish I had a river I could skate away on?

I wanna be strong, I wanna laugh along, I wanna belong to the living. Alive, alive, I wanna get up and jive, Wanna wreck my stockings in some jukebox dive.

Sorrow is so easy to express and yet so hard to tell.

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

During times like these, the wise are influential.