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Joni Mitchell

  • By the time we got to Woodstock / We were half a million strong, / And everywhere was song and celebration, / And I dreamed I saw the bombers / Riding shotgun in the sky, / Turning into butterflies / Above our nation.

    • Joni Mitchell,
    • "Woodstock," Ladies of the Canyon ()
  • I am a woman of heart and mind, looking for affection and respect, a little passion.

    • Joni Mitchell,
    • "You Turn Me On, I'm a Radio," For the Roses ()
  • In a pure anonymous encounter you find a world alive and full of character. In New York, the street adventures are incredible. There are a thousand stories in a single block. You see the stories in people's faces. You hear the songs immediately. Here, in Los Angeles, there are fewer characters because they are all inside automobiles.

    • Joni Mitchell,
    • in Leonore Fleischer, Joni Mitchell ()
  • I hang my laundry on the line when I write.

    • Joni Mitchell,
    • in Leonore Fleischer, Joni Mitchell ()
  • The most important thing is to write in your own blood. I bare intimate feelings because people should know how other people feel.

    • Joni Mitchell,
    • in Leonore Fleischer, Joni Mitchell ()
  • Sorrow is so easy to express and yet so hard to tell.

    • Joni Mitchell,
    • in Leonore Fleischer, Joni Mitchell ()
  • I create by feeling rather than by intellectualizing.

    • Joni Mitchell,
    • in Leonore Fleischer, Joni Mitchell ()
  • Love is a very hard feeling to keep alive. It's a very fragile plant.

    • Joni Mitchell,
    • in Leonore Fleischer, Joni Mitchell ()
  • I've looked at life from both sides now, / From win and lose, and still somehow ... / It's life's illusions I recall ... / I really don't know life at all!

    • Joni Mitchell,
    • "Both Sides, Now" (1967), Clouds ()
  • Happiness is the best face-lift.

    • Joni Mitchell,
    • in Good Housekeeping ()
  • They paved paradise / And put up a parking lot.

    • Joni Mitchell,
    • "Big Yellow Taxi," Ladies of the Canyon ()

Joni Mitchell, Canadian-born U.S. singer, songwriter

(1943)

Full name: Roberta Joan Anderson Mitchell.