Joni Mitchell
They won't give peace a chance, that's just a dream some of us hadCollection: Dream
The Blue album, there’s hardly a dishonest note in the vocals. At that period of my life, I had no personal defenses. I felt like a cellophane wrapper on a pack of cigarettes. I felt like I had absolutely no secrets from the world and I couldn’t pretend in my life to be strong. Or to be happy. But the advantage of it in the music was that there were no defenses there, either.Collection: Strong
I love you when I forget about me.Collection: Love You
everything comes and goes; pleasure moves on too early and trouble leaves too slowCollection: Moving
Moons and Junes and Ferris wheels The dizzy dancing way you feel As every fairy tale comes real I've looked at love that way.Collection: Love
They paved paradise and put up a parkin lot With a pink hotel, a boutique, and a swingin' hot spot Don't it always seem to go That you don't know what you got till it's goneCollection: Hot
They took all the trees and put them in a tree museum.Collection: Future
Love is touching souls.Collection: Love
The thing that started me painting originally was seeing Bambi when I was about nine. I was incredibly disturbed by the forest fire that killed Bambi's mother, and that distress gave me the impulse to create something, as a way of dealing with it.Collection: Mother
I loved Debussy, Stravinsky, Chopin, Tchaikovsky, anything with romantic melodies, especially the nocturnes. Nietzsche was a hero, especially with Thus Spoke Zarathustra. He gets a bad rap; hes very misunderstood. Hes a maker of individuals, and he was a teacher of teachers.Collection: Teacher
Land of snap decisions, land of short attention spans, nothing is savored long enough to really understand.Collection: Land
Whatever it was that I felt was the weak link in my previous project gave me inspiration for the next one.Collection: Inspiration
When I think of your kisses my mind see-saws.Collection: Kissing
If you see yourself as a kingly type, then you need your serfs and your army and so on around you.Collection: Army
My childhood was very difficult. I had every childhood disease and then some, but my parents didnt mollycoddle me. They left me to fight those battles on my own. I guess that was very Canadian, very stoic. But its good. I had to become a warrior. I had to give up hope and find a substitute for hope that would be far more stable.Collection: Giving Up
That's one thing that's always, like, been a difference between, like, the performing arts, and being a painter, you know. A painter does a painting, and he paints it, and that's it, you know. He has the joy of creating it, it hangs on a wall, and somebody buys it, and maybe somebody buys it again, or maybe nobody buys it and it sits up in a loft somewhere until he dies. But he never, you know, nobody ever, nobody ever said to Van Gogh, 'Paint a Starry Night again, man!' You know? He painted it and that was it.Collection: Art
I wanna be strong, I wanna laugh along, I wanna belong to the living. Alive, alive, I wanna get up and jive, Wanna wreck my stockings in some jukebox dive.Collection: Strong
Fly silly sea bird, no dreams can possess you, no voices can blame you for sun on your wings.Collection: Dream
During times like these, the wise are influential.Collection: Wise
Give me spots on my apples, but leave me the birds and the bees, please.Collection: Nature
I don't like being too looked up at or too looked down on. I prefer meeting in the middle to being worshipped or spat out.Collection: Middle
I'm a painter first, and a musician second.Collection: Musician
The Hollywood sirens are shrieking, while down some search lit alley runs some lost belief.Collection: Running
Inside your own self pity there you swim, in sinking down to drown her voice still haunts you, and only with your laughter can you win.Collection: Laughter
I try not to steal from myself, but the modalities create similarities.Collection: Trying
Musically, I don't think I'd ever dry up. I trust my musical invention.Collection: Thinking
Some people are upset to see you doing ordinary things. Those people, if they were a celebrity, they would have an entourage.Collection: People
She'll prophesy your death. She won't say when.Collection: Future
I dreamed I saw the bombers riding shot gun in the sky and they were turning into butterflies above our nation.Collection: Future
We love our lovin'....but not like we love our freedom.Collection: Freedom
Oh, I am a lonely painter / I live in a box of paints.Collection: Lonely
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 bleedCollection: Devil
I was young for my age. Not as naïve as they expected. I don't know why I seem to bring that out in people.Collection: People
I get the urge for going/But I never seem to go.Collection: Seems
The rock & roll industry is very incestuous, and we have all been close at one time or another. A lot of beautiful music and a lot of beautiful times came from that. A lot of pain, too, because, inevitably, different relationships broke up.Collection: Beautiful
Fame is a series of misunderstandin gs surrounding a name.Collection: Names
Lazy reviewers look up other people's reviews and they write the same thing, so you get people writing crap based on crap.Collection: Writing
The land of litigation, the courts are like game shows. Take what's behind the curtain the jury cries.Collection: Land
I wrote 'Big Yellow Taxi' on my first trip to Hawaii. I took a taxi to the hotel and when I woke up the next morning, I threw back the curtains and saw these beautiful green mountains in the distance. Then, I looked down and there was a parking lot as far as the eye could see, and it broke my heart this blight on paradise. That's when I sat down and wrote the song.Collection: Beautiful
I'm a fine artist working in a commercial arena, so that's my cross to bearCollection: Artist
Will you take me as I am? Strung out on another man...California, I'm comin' home.Collection: Music
I've looked at life from both sides now...from win and lose, and still somehow it's life's illusions I recall I really don't know life at all.Collection: Love
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.Collection: Life
I'm your biggest fan, California, I'm coming homeCollection: Home