Joni Mitchell Quotes - Page 5

Sunlight will renew your pride.

Innocence is drowned in anarchy. The best lack conviction given time to think, and the worst are full of passion without mercy.

Augustine, Anne Sexton and Sylvia Plath are confessional writers and all three make me sick. I have nothing in common with them.

We managed to put together a compilation that had some creativity to it. In the meantime I was listening to the free radio stations and I noticed that during their war coverage they were playing these songs born out of the Vietnam War that were all critical of the soldiers.

My family could only afford to get me the box of eight Crayola crayons, but I craved the one with all 24 colours. I wanted magenta and turquoise and silver and gold.

But now old friends are acting strange They shake their heads, they say I've changed Well something's lost, but something's gained In living every day

Won't you stay We'll put on the day And we'll talk in present tenses

They paved paradise and put up a parking lot.

Heart and humor and humility, he said will lighten up your heavy load.

You know that it never has been easy Whether you do or do not resign Whether you travel the breadth of the extremities Or stick to some straighter line.

Edith Piaf knocked my socks off when I was 8, but I didn't know what she was singing about.

Everybody's saying hell's the hippest way to go. Well, I don't think so, but I'm gonna take a look around it though.

Unlike some of my peers, I haven't really hit a writer's block. When I hit a block I just paint, which is an old crop rotation trick.

Love is a very hard feeling to keep alive. It's a very fragile plant.

Bows and flows of angel hair and ice cream castles in the air and feather canyons everywhere, I've looked at clouds that way.

We're captive on the carousel of time, we can't return we can only look behind.

Eventually, with success, I started to feel more and more isolated - like I didn't have a community of artists.

Applause, applause, life is our cause.

My parents told me I'd point to a bed of flowers and say 'Pink. Pretty,' before I knew any other words.

I find a lot of poetry to be narcissistic.

I prefer Christmas, which is everybody's holiday. It's just my nature. I don't like to be zeroed in on en masse.

I never really wanted to be a star. I didn't like entering a room with all eyes on me. I still don't really like the attention of a birthday party.

When the spirit of child's play enters into the creative process, it's a wonderful force and something to be nurtured.

People used to say nobody can sing my songs but me, they're too personal.

An artist needs a certain amount of turmoil and confusion.