Best 226 quotes of Joni Mitchell on MyQuotes

Abstract Expressionism was invented by New York drunks.

Acid, booze, and ass, needles, guns, and grass, lots of laughs.

A few drinks later you're not so choosy when the closing lights strip off the shadows on this strange new flesh you've found.

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

All I really, really want our love to do is to bring out the best in me and in you too.

All my battles were with male egos. I’m just looking for equality, not to dominate. But I want to be able to control my vision.

All romantics meet the same fate some day. Drunk and cynical and boring someone in some dark cafe.

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

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

Americans have decided to be stupid and shallow since 1980.

An artist needs a certain amount of turmoil and confusion.

Applause, applause, life is our cause.

And the seasons they go 'round and 'round And the painted ponies go up and down We're captive on the carousel of time We can't return we can only look behind From where we came And go round and round and round In the circle game.

An unhappy mother does not raise a happy child.

Ask anyone in America where the craziest people live and they'll tell you California. Ask anyone in California where the craziest people live and they'll say Los Angeles. Ask anyone in Los Angeles where the craziest people live and they'll tell you Hollywood. Ask anyone in Hollywood where the craziest people live and they'll say Laurel Canyon. And ask anyone in Laurel Canyon where the craziest people live and they'll say Lookout Mountain. So I bought a house on Lookout Mountain.

At the point where I'm trying to force something and it's not happening, and I'm getting frustrated with, say, writing a poem, I can go and pick up the brushes and start painting. At the point where the painting seems to not be going anywhere, I go and pick up the guitar.

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

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.

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

Because I'm so busy and because I think of myself as a painter, I desperately guard the time that I have to paint. And sometimes I'm irresponsible to my career in order to paint. Because painting is obsessive. I forget to eat. I forget to sleep.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

Chase away the demons, and they will take the angels with them.

Depression can be the sand that makes the pearl. Most of my best work came out of it.

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

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

Do you see how you hurt me, baby? So I hurt you too. Then we both get so blue. I am on a lonely road and I am traveling, looking for the key to set me free.

Do you want - do you want - do you want to dance with me baby?

During times like these, the wise are influential.

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

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

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

Everyone I know has attention deficit, and they say it with great pride. It's a bad time to be right.

everything comes and goes; pleasure moves on too early and trouble leaves too slow

Fame is a series of misunderstandin gs surrounding a name.

Fear is like the wilderland - Stepping stones or sinking sand

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.

Fly silly sea bird, no dreams can possess you, no voices can blame you for sun on your wings.

For the first time in my career, I'm working in a fine-arts arena, so I'm finally getting some intelligent reviews.

Give me spots on my apples, but leave me the birds and the bees, please.

Happiness is the best facelift.

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

Heaven's full of astronauts and the Lord's on death row.

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

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

How does a person create a song? A lot of it is being open to encounter and to be in touch with the miraculous.