Joni Mitchell Zitate auf Englisch

Zitat des Tages von Joni Mitchell:

Fame is a series of misunderstandings surrounding a name.

I see music as fluid architecture.

Joni Mitchell

I hate show business.

Joni Mitchell

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

Joni Mitchell

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.

Joni Mitchell

Americans have decided to be stupid and shallow since 1980.

Joni Mitchell

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

Joni Mitchell

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.

Joni Mitchell

I don't understand why Europeans and South Americans can take more sophistication. Why is it that Americans need to hear their happiness major and their tragedy minor, and as jazzy as they can handle is a seventh chord? Are they not experiencing complex emotions?

Joni Mitchell

I can't remember anything I ever wrote.

Joni Mitchell

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

Joni Mitchell

This is a nation that has lost the ability to be self-critical, and that makes a lie out of the freedoms.

Joni Mitchell

I'm a little young for retirement.

Joni Mitchell

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.

Joni Mitchell

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

Joni Mitchell

Van Gogh was impulsive.

Joni Mitchell

Sorrow is so easy to express and yet so hard to tell.

Joni Mitchell

I wanted to paint in a folk-artist-y way. My heroes were Van Gogh, Gauguin, Matisse, and Rembrandt. I think Picasso is about as a modern as I got. But I incorporated things that they rejected as well as movements that happened later.

Joni Mitchell

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.

Joni Mitchell

Fame is a series of misunderstandings surrounding a name.

Joni Mitchell

There are things to confess that enrich the world, and things that need not be said.

Joni Mitchell

I'm a Buddhist.

Joni Mitchell

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.

Joni Mitchell

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

Joni Mitchell

In some ways, my gift for music and writing was born out of tragedy, really, and loss.

Joni Mitchell

I had made all these rules for myself: I'm not writing social commentary, I'm not writing love songs.

Joni Mitchell

Nobody understood The Reoccurring Dream, but after September 11, when we were coerced to do a national duty and go out and shop, surely people could begin to see what I was getting at.

Joni Mitchell

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.

Joni Mitchell

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.

Joni Mitchell

I don't like to make fluffy little songs, but now I want to make some light songs.

Joni Mitchell

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

Joni Mitchell

I learned a woman is never an old woman.

Joni Mitchell

I've got 50 different tunings in the guitar.

Joni Mitchell

We managed to put together a compilation that had some creativity to it. In the meantime I was listening to the free radio stations and I noticed that during their war coverage they were playing these songs born out of the Vietnam War that were all critical of the soldiers.

Joni Mitchell

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.

Joni Mitchell

I believe that I am male and I am female.

Joni Mitchell

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

Joni Mitchell