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
Buddy Holly and the early rock 'n' roll was no lighter than the way I play. It's very minimal.
Everyone I know has attention deficit, and they say it with great pride. It's a bad time to be right.
I do have this reputation for being a serious person.
I hate show business.
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.
My individual, psychological descent coincided, ironically, with my ascent into the public eye.
I see the entire world as Eden, and every time you take an inch of it away, you must do so with respect.
Don't it always seem to go, that you don't know what you've got till it's gone.
Edith Piaf knocked my socks off when I was 8, but I didn't know what she was singing about.
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.
An unhappy mother does not raise a happy child.
You know that it never has been easy Whether you do or do not resign Whether you travel the breadth of the extremities Or stick to some straighter line.
Augustine, Anne Sexton and Sylvia Plath are confessional writers and all three make me sick. I have nothing in common with them.
I could drink a case of you, darlin'...and I would still be on my feet, yes I would still be on my feet...