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Joni Mitchell [1943-0] Canadian

Rank: 101
Musician, Singer-songwriter

Roberta Joan "Joni" Mitchell, CC is 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.

Music, Architecture, Birthday, Business, Change, Happiness, Home, Hope, Poetry, Religion, Respect, Romantic, Sympathy, Teacher, War

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I learned a woman is never an old woman.		101
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 these songs born out of the Vietnam War that were all critical of the soldiers.	War	102
My heart is broken in the face of the stupidity of my species.		103
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.	Business, Music	104
I see the entire world as Eden, and every time you take an inch of it away, you must do so with respect.	Respect	105
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.	Home	106
I thrive on change. That's probably why my chord changes are weird, because chords depict emotions. They'll be going along on one key and I'll drop off a cliff, and suddenly they will go into a whole other key signature. That will drive some people crazy, but that's how my life is.	Change	107
Rachmaninoff made a musician out of me. His 'Rhapsody on a Theme by Paganini' was the piece that sent me into raptures. It spoke to me. To me, it was a tender entreaty for the misunderstood.		108
Sorrow is so easy to express and yet so hard to tell.	Sympathy	109
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 is a seventh chord? Are they not experiencing complex emotions?	Happiness	110
This is a nation that has lost the ability to be self-critical, and that makes a lie out of the freedoms.		111
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.	Religion	112
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 that moment of clarity to contribute to the song, it's just complaining.		113
My style of songwriting is influenced by cinema. I'm a frustrated filmmaker. A fan once said to me, 'Girl, you make me see pictures in my head!' and I took that as a great compliment. That's exactly my intention.		114
You wake up one day and suddenly realize that your youth is behind you, even though you're still young at heart.		115
I see music as fluid architecture.	Architecture, Music	116
My childhood was very difficult. I had every childhood disease and then some, but my parents didn't mollycoddle me. They left me to fight those battles on my own. I guess that was very Canadian, very stoic. But it's good. I had to become a warrior. I had to give up hope and find a substitute for hope that would be far more stable.	Hope	117
I have an aversion to being mislabeled. Here's a label I'd accept: I'm an 'individual.' I'm someone who can't follow, and doesn't want to lead.		118
My goal as a writer is more to comfort than to disturb.		119
My parents told me I'd point to a bed of flowers and say 'Pink. Pretty,' before I knew any other words.		120
You know, Neil Young is singing Rock n' roll will never die, and Neil never rocked and rolled in his life. I mean, he rocked, but he didn't roll. He has got no swing in him.		121
My life came down to being a granny and watching a lot of television.		122
White rhythm is waltzes, marches, and the polka. In Africa, rhythm is used for a celebratory groove, but white rhythm doesn't have such an enormous vocabulary of spirits. It's basically militant.		123
When I came to California, it was the mecca of the world. Every young person on the planet wanted to be here.		124
Everyone I know has attention deficit, and they say it with great pride. It's a bad time to be right.		125
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 local station closed down.		126
There are things to confess that enrich the world, and things that need not be said.		201
I used to be monastic, almost. Now I'm like a Tibetan that has discovered hamburgers and television. I'm catching up on Americana.		202
The God of the Old Testament is the depiction of evil.		203
When the world becomes a massive mess with nobody at the helm, it's time for artists to make their mark.		204
Van Gogh was impulsive.		205
I'm a little young for retirement.		206
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.		207
Fame is a series of misunderstandings surrounding a name.		208
I'm a very analytical person, a somewhat introspective person; that's the nature of the work I do.		209
I love to dance.		210
My family could only afford to get me the box of eight Crayola crayons, but I craved the one with all 24 colours. I wanted magenta and turquoise and silver and gold.		211
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.	Romantic, Teacher	212
I've got 50 different tunings in the guitar.		213
I'm a Buddhist.		214
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.	Birthday	215
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 extra time now. There isn't enough time.		216
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.		217
No one likes to have less than they had before. That's the nature of the human animal.		218
Nobody understood The Reoccurring Dream, but after September 11, when we were coerced to do a national duty and go out and shop, surely people could begin to see what I was getting at.		219
Not to dismiss Gershwin, but Gershwin is the chip; Ellington was the block.		220
Ira Gershwin, shame on him. I mean, some of the writing.		221
Buddy Holly and the early rock 'n' roll was no lighter than the way I play. It's very minimal.		222
I had made all these rules for myself: I'm not writing social commentary, I'm not writing love songs.		223
I don't like to make fluffy little songs, but now I want to make some light songs.		224
I'm not a pitiable creature. It's just that I suffer very eloquently.		225
I'm a night owl.		226
Americans have decided to be stupid and shallow since 1980.		301
I lost my daughter at 21. I had to give her up because I was broke, no place to take her, no money to take her. That was very traumatic.		302
The thing that gave me the most pain in life, psychologically, and it gave me tremendous pain psychologically, is man's disrespect for nature.		303
Drag wasn't always counterculture.		304
Edith Piaf knocked my socks off when I was 8, but I didn't know what she was singing about.		305
To enjoy my music, you need depth and emotionality.		306
I always thought the women of song don't get along, and I don't know why that is.		307
Augustine, Anne Sexton and Sylvia Plath are confessional writers and all three make me sick. I have nothing in common with them.		308
I sing my sorrow, and I paint my joy.		309
In some ways, my gift for music and writing was born out of tragedy, really, and loss.		310
Because I'm so busy and because I think of myself as a painter, I desperately guard the time that I have to paint. And sometimes I'm irresponsible to my career in order to paint. Because painting is obsessive. I forget to eat. I forget to sleep.		311
But I have a tremendous will to live and a tremendous 'joie de vivre,' alternating with irritability.		312
At the point where I'm trying to force something and it's not happening, and I'm getting frustrated with, say, writing a poem, I can go and pick up the brushes and start painting. At the point where the painting seems to not be going anywhere, I go and pick up the guitar.		313
The Beginning of Survival is my best album. I am very proud of it, and I am surprised at it, too. I thought some of Travelogue was a little heavy, but I don't think this is heavy.		314
My name had gone stale, and no matter how progressive I got, it was my time to die.		315
Paul Simon started piling up a lot of words, more than the bar could handle, and I stopped!		316
I certainly don't want to be an angry old artist.		317
I conceived in art college at the age of 20, near the end of term.		318
An unhappy mother does not raise a happy child.		319
I find a lot of poetry to be narcissistic.	Poetry	320
In terms of fiction, I'd rather go out and have a good time than read a book about someone having a good or bad time.		321
I don't like being too looked up at or too looked down on. I prefer meeting in the middle to being worshiped or spat out.		322
My first four albums covered the usual youth problems - looking for love in all the wrong places - while the next five are basically about being in your 30s.		323
My individual, psychological descent coincided, ironically, with my ascent into the public eye.		324
The considerations of a corporation, especially now, have nothing to do with art or music.		325
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.		326
People used to say nobody can sing my songs but me - they're too personal.		401
What I do is unusual: chordal movements that have never been used before, changing keys and modalities mid-song.		402
For the first time in my career, I'm working in a fine-arts arena, so I'm finally getting some intelligent reviews.		403
America is in a runaway-train position and dragging all the world with it. It's grotesquely mentally ill.		404
I get the same charge from juxtaposition of colors as I do from juxtaposition of chords.		405
I believe that I am male and I am female.		406
The songwriting was almost like something I did while I was waiting for my daughter to come back.		407
I have always thought of myself as a painter derailed by circumstance.		408
I'm irresponsible to my career in order to paint. Because painting is obsessive. I forget to eat. I forget to sleep.		409
I know my generation - a lot of them, they're getting old now, and they want to think back fondly, they want to kid themselves. A lot of them think, 'Yeah, we were the best.' That's the kiss of death. That's non-growth. And also that's very bad for the world.		410
I wanted to paint in a folk-artist-y way. My heroes were Van Gogh, Gauguin, Matisse, and Rembrandt. I think Picasso is about as a modern as I got. But I incorporated things that they rejected as well as movements that happened later.		411
When you're trying to pass on the best of the stuff you're culling to what should be a hungry culture but you have it diminished... that's kind of disappointing.		412
The coming of the kids hasn't come out in my art yet.		413
I hate show business.		414
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.		415
I think I would go further into fine arts, I think, if I were to continue.		416
I can't remember anything I ever wrote.		417
With a painting, you don't have to go back and paint it again.		418
I'd had a rough childhood.		419
I do have this reputation for being a serious person.		420
I'm a method actress in my songs, which is why it's hard to sing them.		421
I couldn't see passion as a bad thing.		422
I came through folk music simply because it was easy to get into it.		423
Eventually, with success, I started to feel more and more isolated - like I didn't have a community of artists.		424
When I began experimenting, people weren't ready for it. Once it's in its second and third generational stages, people can accept it.		425
I see bodies as individual things.		426

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