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
People think it's being remodeled, ... I tell them, and they say, 'What? What do you mean they're tearing down the old high-school building?'
Lazy reviewers look up other people's reviews and they write the same thing, so you get people writing crap based on crap.
I liked playing in small clubs. I really liked holding the attention of thirty or forty people. I never liked the roar of the big crowd.
I like my freedom. I like to do my own grocery shopping. People do recognize you. They are kind of shocked. Some people like it. It makes them feel at ease. It confirms their hopes that you are in fact similar to them.
Some people are upset to see you doing ordinary things. Those people, if they were a celebrity, they would have an entourage.
I was young for my age. Not as naïve as they expected. I don't know why I seem to bring that out in people.
When I felt that fame, people were nosing me out, well I moved on. I used traveling names. Wigs, if necessary.
People were very protective of me. Overly so. I was in the industry for a long time before I had any idea of what drugs people were doing.
People used to say nobody can sing my songs but me, they're too personal.
The most important thing is to write in your own blood. I bare intimate feelings because people should know how other people feel.
If I'm censoring for anyone, it's for my parents. They are very old-fashioned and moral people. They still don't understand me that well.
We have a war dictator who was not elected, he snuck in. so he punishes people that threaten him in any way, or even say something he doesn't like. It has no resemblance to democracy.
When I began experimenting, people weren't ready for it. Once it's in its second and third generational stages, people can accept it.
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.