3 December 2020 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.
3 December 2020 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.
3 December 2020 Joni Mitchell I heard someone from the music business saying they are no longer looking for talent, they want people with a certain look and a willingness to cooperate.
3 December 2020 Joni Mitchell Eventually, with success, I started to feel more and more isolated – like I didn’t have a community of artists.
3 December 2020 Joni Mitchell The considerations of a corporation, especially now, have nothing to do with art or music.
3 December 2020 Joni Mitchell You have this mounting aggressive ignorance with the rabbit’s foot of their particular religion. You don’t really have any kind of spiritual law, just a kind of a rabid mental illness. The songs are a little slice of life.
3 December 2020 Joni Mitchell We have a war dictator who was not elected, he snuck in. so he punishes people that threaten him in any way, or even say something he doesn’t like. It has no resemblance to democracy.
3 December 2020 Joni Mitchell In some ways, my gift for music and writing was born out of tragedy, really, and loss.
3 December 2020 Joni Mitchell 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.
3 December 2020 Joni Mitchell No one likes to have less than they had before. That’s the nature of the human animal.
3 December 2020 Joni Mitchell I’m a very analytical person, a somewhat introspective person that’s the nature of the work I do.
3 December 2020 Joni Mitchell I see the entire world as Eden, and every time you take an inch of it away, you must do so with respect.
3 December 2020 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.
3 December 2020 Joni Mitchell The thing that gave me the most pain in life, psychologically, and it gave me tremendous pain psychologically, is man’s disrespect for nature.
