Joni Mitchell Quotes - Page 6

Bob [Dylan] is not authentic at all. He's a plagiarist, and his name and voice are fake. Everything about Bob is a deception. We are like night and day, he and I.

Fame is a series of misunderstandin gs surrounding a name.

The land of litigation, the courts are like game shows. Take what's behind the curtain the jury cries.

Lazy reviewers look up other people's reviews and they write the same thing, so you get people writing crap based on crap.

When I began experimenting, people weren't ready for it. Once it's in its second and third generational stages, people can accept it.

I wrote 'Big Yellow Taxi' on my first trip to Hawaii. I took a taxi to the hotel and when I woke up the next morning, I threw back the curtains and saw these beautiful green mountains in the distance. Then, I looked down and there was a parking lot as far as the eye could see, and it broke my heart this blight on paradise. That's when I sat down and wrote the song.

I heard someone from the music business saying they are no longer looking for talent, they want people with a certain look and a willingness to cooperate.

I'm a fine artist working in a commercial arena, so that's my cross to bear

Will you take me as I am? Strung out on another man...California, I'm comin' home.

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.

But now it's just another show, you leave em laughing when you go. And if you care, don't let them know, don't give yourself away.

I'm your biggest fan, California, I'm coming home

No one likes to have less than they had before. That's the nature of the human animal.

I could drink a case of you, darlin'...and I would still be on my feet, yes I would still be on my feet.

All the news of home you read, more about the war and of bloody changes.

I was anti-intellectual to the nth. Basically I liked to dance and paint, and that was about it.

I think I would go further into fine arts, I think, if I were to continue.

I know my generation - a lot of them, they're getting old now, and they want to think back fondly, they want to kid themselves. A lot of them think, 'Yeah, we were the best.' That's the kiss of death. That's non-growth. And also that's very bad for the world.

I could drink a case of you.

You know, Neil Young is singing Rock n' roll will never die, and Neil never rocked and rolled in his life. I mean, he rocked, but he didn't roll. He has got no swing in him.

America is in a runaway-train position and dragging all the world with it. It's grotesquely mentally ill.

I like my freedom. I like to do my own grocery shopping. People do recognize you. They are kind of shocked. Some people like it. It makes them feel at ease. It confirms their hopes that you are in fact similar to them.

You wake up one day and suddenly realize that your youth is behind you, even though you're still young at heart.

I learned from admiration and osmosis.

The coming of the kids hasn't come out in my art yet.