Home
Authors
Tags
App
Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App
" Fame is a series of misunderstandings surrounding a name. "
Joni Mitchell
Fame
Series
Surrounding
Related Quotes:
" 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. "
Joni Mitchell
You
Best
Hungry
" An unhappy mother does not raise a happy child. "
Joni Mitchell
Raise
Unhappy
Child
" I sing my sorrow, and I paint my joy. "
Joni Mitchell
Joy
Sorrow
Sing
" 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. "
Joni Mitchell
Her
Place
Up
" No one likes to have less than they had before. That's the nature of the human animal. "
Joni Mitchell
Animal
Nature
Likes
" I do have this reputation for being a serious person. "
Joni Mitchell
Being
Person
Serious
" I'm not a pitiable creature. It's just that I suffer very eloquently. "
Joni Mitchell
Very
Creature
Suffer
" Augustine, Anne Sexton and Sylvia Plath are confessional writers and all three make me sick. I have nothing in common with them. "
Joni Mitchell
Me
Make
Three
" I believe that I am male and I am female. "
Joni Mitchell
I Believe That
I Believe
I Am
" Van Gogh was impulsive. "
Joni Mitchell
Van Gogh
Gogh
Impulsive
" There are things to confess that enrich the world, and things that need not be said. "
Joni Mitchell
Enrich
Said
Things
" 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. "
Joni Mitchell
Good
Go
Bad
" Drag wasn't always counterculture. "
Joni Mitchell
Always
Drag
" 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. "
Joni Mitchell
Best
Proud
I Am
" 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. "
Joni Mitchell
Lead
Who
Want
" When I came to California, it was the mecca of the world. Every young person on the planet wanted to be here. "
Joni Mitchell
Person
World
Young
" 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. "
Joni Mitchell
Democracy
Say
War
" The songwriting was almost like something I did while I was waiting for my daughter to come back. "
Joni Mitchell
Back
Daughter
Songwriting
" I see the entire world as Eden, and every time you take an inch of it away, you must do so with respect. "
Joni Mitchell
I See
You
World
" With a painting, you don't have to go back and paint it again. "
Joni Mitchell
You
Painting
Paint
" 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. "
Joni Mitchell
Night
Mountain
Texas
" I get the same charge from juxtaposition of colors as I do from juxtaposition of chords. "
Joni Mitchell
Same
Charge
Colors
" My individual, psychological descent coincided, ironically, with my ascent into the public eye. "
Joni Mitchell
Eye
Descent
Ascent
" My parents told me I'd point to a bed of flowers and say 'Pink. Pretty,' before I knew any other words. "
Joni Mitchell
Words
Say
Flowers
" 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. "
Joni Mitchell
Down
Up
Out
" I can't remember anything I ever wrote. "
Joni Mitchell
Anything
Wrote
Remember
" I came through folk music simply because it was easy to get into it. "
Joni Mitchell
Because
Folk
Get
" 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. "
Joni Mitchell
You
Street
See
" America is in a runaway-train position and dragging all the world with it. It's grotesquely mentally ill. "
Joni Mitchell
World
Position
America
" My name had gone stale, and no matter how progressive I got, it was my time to die. "
Joni Mitchell
Name
Time
Die