Joni Mitchell Quotes - Page 7

I'm not a kiss-and-teller. I never named names.

I do have this reputation for being a serious person.

Sex sells everything and sex kills.

I can't remember anything I ever wrote.

A little lawyer on the tube, he said, its so easy now, anyone can sue.

Some get the gravy, some get the gristle.

My first four albums covered the usual youth problems - looking for love in all the wrong places - while the next five are basically about being in your 30s.

Van Gogh was impulsive.

When I was 19 I went to art school. I had six months of teaching myself to play baritone ukulele under my belt so I was sort of a novice folkie... I was singing folk songs at that time.

It's in my stars to invent; I was born on Madame Curie's birthday. I have this need for originals, for innovation. That's why I like Charlie Parker.

Buddy Holly and the early rock 'n' roll was no lighter than the way I play. It's very minimal.

Woke up, it was a Chelsea morning, and the first thing that I knew there was milk and toast and honey and a bowl of oranges, too.

Abstract Expressionism was invented by New York drunks.

Paul Simon started piling up a lot of words, more than the bar could handle, and I stopped!

I create by feeling rather than by intellectualizing.

I came upon a child of god, He was walking along the road And I asked him, where are you going And this he told me: "I'm going on down to Yasgur's farm I'm going to join in a rock 'n' roll band I'm going to camp out on the land, I'm going to try an' get my soul free.

I am as constant as a northern star

I assume there must be some kind of genetic thrust. My two grandmothers were very different, but both of them were frustrated musicians.

Does the moon play only silver when it strums the galaxy?

Rolling Stone hates me. They must have an editorial policy to do me in for many years.

Fibers in a variety of colors protrude out of my skin like mushrooms after a rainstorm. They cannot be forensically identified as animal, vegetable or mineral.

I have one piece of music, since 1997, and I don't see it having lyrics. Where does it go in this world? So I haven't recorded it.

I hate show business.

Musically, I would never run dry. Any time I sit down to an instrument, I could write a song.

Richard got married to a figure skater, and he bought her a dishwasher and a coffee percolator.