Joni Mitchell
Joni Mitchell
Roberta Joan "Joni" Mitchell, CCis a Canadian singer-songwriter and painter. Mitchell's work is highly respected by critics, and she has deeply influenced fellow musicians in a diverse range of genres. Rolling Stone has called her "one of the greatest songwriters ever", and AllMusic has stated, "When the dust settles, Joni Mitchell may stand as the most important and influential female recording artist of the late 20th century". Her lyrics are noted for their developed poetics, addressing social and environmental ideals...
NationalityCanadian
ProfessionMusician
Date of Birth7 November 1943
CountryCanada
My family could only afford to get me the box of eight Crayola crayons, but I craved the one with all 24 colours. I wanted magenta and turquoise and silver and gold.
My parents told me I'd point to a bed of flowers and say 'Pink. Pretty,' before I knew any other words.
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.
I think I would go further into fine arts, I think, if I were to continue.
I'm a method actress in my songs, which is why it's hard to sing them.
I hang my laundry on the line when I write.
Oh, I am a lonely painter / I live in a box of paints...
I dreamed I saw the bombers riding shot gun in the sky and they were turning into butterflies above our nation.
I met a redneck on a Grecian isle who did the Goat Dance very well.
They took all the trees and put them in a tree museum.
She'll prophesy your death. She won't say when.
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.
Some get the gravy, some get the gristle.