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
He saw my complications and he mirrored me back simplified, and we laughed how our perfect world would always be denied.
When I came to California, it was the mecca of the world. Every young person on the planet wanted to be here.
America is in a runaway-train position and dragging all the world with it. It's grotesquely mentally ill.
I see the entire world as Eden, and every time you take an inch of it away, you must do so with respect.
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.
There are things to confess that enrich the world, and things that need not be said.
When the world becomes a massive mess with nobody at the helm, it's time for artists to make their mark.
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