Joni Mitchell Quotes - Page 4

An unhappy mother does not raise a happy child.

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

Morgellons is constantly morphing. There are times when it's directly attacking the nervous system, as if you're being bitten by fleas and lice. It's all in the tissue and it's not a hallucination. It was eating me alive, sucking the juices out. I've been sick all my life.

I don't like being too looked up at or too looked down on. I prefer meeting in the middle to being worshipped or spat out.

Some turn to Jesus and some turn to heroin.

Do you want - do you want - do you want to dance with me baby?

In search of love and music My whole life has been Illumination Corruption And diving, diving, diving, diving, Diving down to pick up every shiny thing

Because I'm so busy and because I think of myself as a painter, I desperately guard the time that I have to paint. And sometimes I'm irresponsible to my career in order to paint. Because painting is obsessive. I forget to eat. I forget to sleep.

Daydreamin' drugs the pain of living.

I never loved a man as far as I could pitch my shoe.

Tears and fears and feeling proud To say I love you, right out loud Dreams and schemes and circus crowds I've looked at life that way. But now old friends are acting strange They shake their heads, they say I've changed Something's lost, but something's gained In living every day I've looked at life from both sides now From win and lose, and still somehow It's life's illusions I recall I really don't know life at all

I had made all these rules for myself: I'm not writing social commentary, I'm not writing love songs.

Once I got the open tunings for some reason, I began to get the harmonic sophistication that I heard that my musical fountain inside was excited by. Once I got some interesting chords to play with, my writing began to come.

I don't know how to sell out. If I tried to sell out I don't think I could.

I see the entire world as Eden, and every time you take an inch of it away, you must do so with respect.

We call for the three great stimulants of the exhausted ones, artifice, brutality, and innocence.

I'm a little young for retirement.

I got in before SoHo was SoHo. It was just Little Italy when I was in there. It's still off the touristy track. It's just away from the Saturday action, the crowds and everything. It's too expensive. It's insane. You've got to be a billionaire to live on Manhattan now.

Heaven's full of astronauts and the Lord's on death row.

You could write a song about some kind of emotional problem you are having, but it would not be a good song, in my eyes, until it went through a period of sensitivity to a moment of clarity. Without that moment of clarity to contribute to the song, it's just complaining.

I didn't like the sound of people gasping at the mere mention of my name. It horrified me...

When you reach that kind of successful pinnacle, it is the nature of the business and the press and everything that they go about tearing you down.

The considerations of a corporation, especially now, have nothing to do with art or music.

Nobody understood The Reoccurring Dream, but after September 11, when we were coerced to do a national duty and go out and shop, surely people could begin to see what I was getting at.

Just before our love got lost you said "I am as constant as a northern star" And I said, constantly in the darkness, Where's that at? If you want me I'll be in the bar.