We managed to put together a compilation that had some creativity to it. In the meantime I was listening to the free radio stations and I noticed that during their war coverage they were playing thes…
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About Joni Mitchell
Roberta Joan "Joni" Mitchell is a Canadian singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and painter. As one of the most influential singer-songwriters to emerge from the 1960s folk music circuit, Mitchell became known for her personal lyrics and unconventional compositions, which grew to incorporate elements of pop, jazz, rock, and other genres. Among her accolades are eleven Grammy Awards, and induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1997. Rolling Stone, in 2002, named her "one of the gre…
Read on Wikipedia → Find books by Joni MitchellWe 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.
Sorrow is so easy to express and yet so hard to tell.
Eventually, with success, I started to feel more and more isolated - like I didn't have a community of artists.
I see the entire world as Eden, and every time you take an inch of it away, you must do so with respect.
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 …
I find a lot of poetry to be narcissistic.
The thing that gave me the most pain in life, psychologically, and it gave me tremendous pain psychologically, is man's disrespect for nature.
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I'm a very analytical person, a somewhat introspective person that's the nature of the work I do.
No one likes to have less than they had before. That's the nature of the human animal.
I heard someone from the music business saying they are no longer looking for talent, they want people with a certain look and a willingness to cooperate.
I came through folk music simply because it was easy to get into it.
The considerations of a corporation, especially now, have nothing to do with art or music.
To enjoy my music, you need depth and emotionality.
I see music as fluid architecture.
In some ways, my gift for music and writing was born out of tragedy, really, and loss.
There was this mountain village in Russia where my music was getting in on some German radio station. I remember this because music used to get up to Saskatchewan from Texas. Late at night after the …
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.
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.
I don't understand why Europeans and South Americans can take more sophistication. Why is it that Americans need to hear their happiness major and their tragedy minor, and as jazzy as they can handle…
You could write a song about some kind of emotional problem you are having, but it would not be a good song, in my eyes, until it went through a period of sensitivity to a moment of clarity. Without …
I heard someone from the music business saying they are no longer looking for talent, they want people with a certain look and a willingness to cooperate.
I hate show business.
Back then, I didn't have a big organization around me. I was just a kid with a guitar, traveling around. My responsibility basically was to the art, and I had extra time on my hands. There is no extr…
I see music as fluid architecture.