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
Sex sells everything and sex kills.
A few drinks later you're not so choosy when the closing lights strip off the shadows on this strange new flesh you've found.
You feed it all your woes, the ghostly garden grows.
Because Elvis gave 'em cars, you think I'm cheap.
He's swept with the broom of contempt and the rooms have an empty ring.
Acid, booze, and ass, needles, guns, and grass, lots of laughs.
We call for the three great stimulants of the exhausted ones, artifice, brutality, and innocence.
Innocence is drowned in anarchy. The best lack conviction given time to think, and the worst are full of passion without mercy.
Elusive dreams and vague desires fanned to fiery needs by deadly deeds of falling empires.
The times you impress me the most are the times when you don't try.
Everybody's saying hell's the hippest way to go. Well, I don't think so, but I'm gonna take a look around it though.
The bands and the roadies, love 'em and leave 'em. It's pleasure to try 'em, but trouble to keep 'em.
We're captive on the carousel of time, we can't return we can only look behind.
We'll laugh and toast to nothing, and smash our empty glasses down.