16 Quotes & Sayings By Joni Mitchell

Joni Mitchell is a Canadian songwriter, singer-songwriter, musician and painter. She is one of the most acclaimed and influential artists of her generation. In 1975, she became the first woman to win the Grammy Award for Album of the Year for "Mingus". In 2016, Rolling Stone magazine ranked her as one of the 100 greatest artists of all time.

We love our lovin'....but not like we love our freedom.
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We love our lovin'....but not like we love our freedom. Joni Mitchell
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You dont know what you got till its gone Joni Mitchell
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Will you take me as I am? Strung out on another man... California, I'm comin' home. Joni Mitchell
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We are stardust Billion-year old carbon And we've got to get ourselves back to the garden Joni Mitchell
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In search of love and music my whole life has been Illumination Corruption And diving, diving, diving, diving down To pick up on every shiny thing Joni Mitchell
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I've looked at life from both sides now From up and down and still somehow It's life's illusions I recall I really don't know life at all Joni Mitchell
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Don't it always seem to go, that you don't know what you've got till it's gone. Joni Mitchell
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The thing that gave me the most pain in life, psychologically, and it gave me tremendous pain psychologically, is man's disrespect for nature. Joni Mitchell
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No one likes to have less than they had before. That's the nature of the human animal. Joni Mitchell
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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; he's very misunderstood. He's a maker of individuals, and he was a teacher of teachers. Joni Mitchell
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I see music as fluid architecture. Joni Mitchell
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You have this mounting aggressive ignorance with the rabbit's foot of their particular religion. You don't really have any kind of spiritual law, just a kind of a rabid mental illness. The songs are a little slice of life. Joni Mitchell
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Sorrow is so easy to express and yet so hard to tell. Joni Mitchell
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It's in my stars to invent; I was born on Madame Curie's birthday. I have this need for originals, for innovation. That's why I like Charlie Parker. Joni Mitchell
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I find a lot of poetry to be narcissistic. Joni Mitchell