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
When I think of your kisses my mind see-saws.
My style of songwriting is influenced by cinema. I'm a frustrated filmmaker. A fan once said to me, 'Girl, you make me see pictures in my head!' and I took that as a great compliment. That's exactly my intention.
Do you want - do you want - do you want to dance with me baby?
Oh, the jealousy, the greed is the unraveling. It's the unraveling and it undoes all the joy that could be. .
All romantics meet the same fate some day. Drunk and cynical and boring someone in some dark cafe.
I'm irresponsible to my career in order to paint. Because painting is obsessive. I forget to eat. I forget to sleep.
I get the same charge from juxtaposition of colors as I do from juxtaposition of chords.
I conceived in art college at the age of 20, near the end of term.
For the first time in my career, I'm working in a fine-arts arena, so I'm finally getting some intelligent reviews.
America is in a runaway-train position and dragging all the world with it. It's grotesquely mentally ill.
Eventually, with success, I started to feel more and more isolated - like I didn't have a community of artists.
I had made all these rules for myself: I'm not writing social commentary, I'm not writing love songs.
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.
When I began experimenting, people weren't ready for it. Once it's in its second and third generational stages, people can accept it.