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
In terms of fiction, I'd rather go out and have a good time than read a book about someone having a good or bad time.
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.
I live in a box of paints I'm frightened by the devil And I'm drawn to those ones that ain't afraid
I sang in art school, just to get money to smoke.
People used to say nobody can sing my songs but me, they're too personal.
I'd had a rough childhood.
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.
The God of the Old Testament is the depiction of evil.
An artist needs a certain amount of turmoil and confusion.
I always thought the women of song don't get along, and I don't know why that is.
I know my generation - a lot of them, they're getting old now, and they want to think back fondly, they want to kid themselves. A lot of them think, 'Yeah, we were the best.' That's the kiss of death. That's non-growth. And also that's very bad for the world.
Love is a very hard feeling to keep alive. It's a very fragile plant.
I assume there must be some kind of genetic thrust. My two grandmothers were very different, but both of them were frustrated musicians.
My life came down to being a granny and watching a lot of television.