Joni Mitchell Quotes

We love our lovin'....but not like we love our freedom.

~ Joni Mitchell

We are stardustBillion-year old carbonAnd we've got to get ourselves back to the garden

~ Joni Mitchell

In search of love and music my whole life has beenIlluminationCorruptionAnd diving, diving, diving, diving down To pick up on every shiny thing

~ Joni Mitchell

Don't it always seem to go, that you don't know what you've got till it's gone.

~ Joni Mitchell

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

No one likes to have less than they had before. That's the nature of the human animal.

~ Joni Mitchell

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

I see music as fluid architecture.

~ Joni Mitchell

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

Sorrow is so easy to express and yet so hard to tell.

~ Joni Mitchell

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

I find a lot of poetry to be narcissistic.

~ Joni Mitchell