Joni Mitchell Quotes - Page 9

I'm a method actress in my songs, which is why it's hard to sing them.

I met a woman She had a mouth like yours She knew your life She knew your devils and your deeds And she said "Go to him, stay with him if you can But be prepared to bleed

Elusive dreams and vague desires fanned to fiery needs by deadly deeds of falling empires.

My life came down to being a granny and watching a lot of television.

Because Elvis gave 'em cars, you think I'm cheap.

I see bodies as individual things.

I'm a painter first, and a musician second.

The Beginning of Survival is my best album. I am very proud of it, and I am surprised at it, too. I thought some of Travelogue was a little heavy, but I don't think this is heavy.

I liked playing in small clubs. I really liked holding the attention of thirty or forty people. I never liked the roar of the big crowd.

In terms of fiction, I'd rather go out and have a good time than read a book about someone having a good or bad time.

But you know it's hard to tell When you're in the spell if it's wrong or if it's real But you're bound to lose If you let the blues get you scared to feel

My name had gone stale, and no matter how progressive I got, it was my time to die.

It's life's illusions that I recall, I really don't know life at all

We love our lovin'....but not like we love our freedom.

When I came to California, it was the mecca of the world. Every young person on the planet wanted to be here.

Oh, I am a lonely painter / I live in a box of paints.

With a painting, you don't have to go back and paint it again.

I have always thought of myself as a painter derailed by circumstance.

I dreamed I saw the bombers riding shot gun in the sky and they were turning into butterflies above our nation.

She'll prophesy your death. She won't say when.

When you're trying to pass on the best of the stuff you're culling to what should be a hungry culture but you have it diminished... that's kind of disappointing.

There was this mountain village in Russia where my music was getting in on some German radio station. I remember this because music used to get up to Saskatchewan from Texas. Late at night after the local station closed down.

I always thought the women of song don't get along, and I don't know why that is.

Don't it always seem to go, that you don't know what you've got till it's gone.

The songwriting was almost like something I did while I was waiting for my daughter to come back.