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
Acid, booze, and ass, needles, guns, and grass, lots of laughs.
We'll laugh and toast to nothing, and smash our empty glasses down.
They used to laugh at me when I refused to ride on all those double decker buses, all because there was no driver on the top.
But now it's just another show, you leave em laughing when you go. And if you care, don't let them know, don't give yourself away.
Laughing and crying, you know it's the same release.
I wanna be strong, I wanna laugh along, I wanna belong to the living. Alive, alive, I wanna get up and jive, Wanna wreck my stockings in some jukebox dive.
Fame is a series of misunderstandings surrounding a name.
This is a nation that has lost the ability to be self-critical, and that makes a lie out of the freedoms.
Moons and Junes and Ferris wheels/ The dizzy dancing way you feel/ As every fairy tale comes real/ I've looked at love that way.
But I have a tremendous will to live and a tremendous 'joie de vivre,' alternating with irritability.
I sing my sorrow, and I paint my joy.
In New York, the street adventures are incredible. There are a thousand stories in a single block. You see the stories in the people's faces. You hear the songs immediately. Here in Los Angeles, there are less characters because they're all inside automobiles.
But you're bound to loseIf you let the blues get you scared to feel
But you're bound to lose If you let the blues get you scared to feel