Joni Mitchell Quotes - Page 8

I have lost my credibility as a hit maker because of these side excursions into other branches of music; by not being consistent. Consistency seems to be all-important.

I'm a very analytical person, a somewhat introspective person; that's the nature of the work I do.

There's a man who's been out sailing In a decade full of dreams And he takes her to a schooner And he treats her like a queen Bearing beads from California With their amber stones and green He has called her from the harbor He has kissed her with his freedom He has heard her off to starboard In the breaking and the breathing Of the water weeds While she was busy being free

You snipe so steady, you snub so snide, so rip and ready to diminish and deride.

He saw my complications and he mirrored me back simplified, and we laughed how our perfect world would always be denied.

I hang my laundry on the line when I write.

Back then, I didn't have a big organization around me. I was just a kid with a guitar, traveling around. My responsibility basically was to the art, and I had extra time on my hands. There is no extra time now. There isn't enough time.

The pirate he will sink you with a kiss, he'll steal your heart and sail away.

I met a redneck on a Grecian isle who did the Goat Dance very well.

They used to laugh at me when I refused to ride on all those double decker buses, all because there was no driver on the top.

I like my freedom. I like to do my own grocery shopping.

The bands and the roadies, love 'em and leave 'em. It's pleasure to try 'em, but trouble to keep 'em.

He's swept with the broom of contempt and the rooms have an empty ring.

We'll laugh and toast to nothing, and smash our empty glasses down.

If I'm censoring for anyone, it's for my parents. They are very old-fashioned and moral people. They still don't understand me that well.

I sang in art school, just to get money to smoke.

My style of songwriting is influenced by cinema. I'm a frustrated filmmaker. A fan once said to me, 'Girl, you make me see pictures in my head!' and I took that as a great compliment. That's exactly my intention.

I come from pioneer stock, developers of the West, people who went out into the wilderness and set up home with nothing but a pair of oxen.

In a pure anonymous encounter you find a world alive and full of character. In New York, the street adventures are incredible. There are a thousand stories in a single block. You see the stories in people's faces. You hear the songs immediately. Here, in Los Angeles, there are fewer characters because they are all inside automobiles.

I believe that I am male and I am female.

My husband had an education. He had a degree in Literature. I married into a camp of literary types.

White rhythm is waltzes, marches, and the polka. In Africa, rhythm is used for a celebratory groove, but white rhythm doesn't have such an enormous vocabulary of spirits. It's basically militant.

The Hollywood sirens are shrieking, while down some search lit alley runs some lost belief.

Ira Gershwin, shame on him. I mean, some of the writing.

You win the lasting laurels with your laughter.