Joni Mitchell Paint Another Starry Night Again

Joni Mitchell (born Roberta Joan Anderson on November seven, 1943) is a Canadian vocalist-songwriter and painter.

Quotes [edit]

• "That'southward one thing that's e'er, like, uh, the major difference betwixt the performing arts to me, and being a painter, you know. Like, a painter does a painting, and he does a painting — and that's it, you know. He's had the joy of creating it, and he hangs on a wall, and somebody buys information technology, somebody buys it once again, or perhaps nobody buys it, and information technology sits up in a loft somewhere until he dies. But he's never, you lot know, nobody ever says to him, you know, nobody ever said to Van Gogh, 'Paint a Starry Nighttime over again, man!' You know? He painted it, and that was it."
  • Miles of Aisles (1974)

• I need to explore and discover and so that has given me, actually, to some what seems similar courage, but really it's just in my stars, there'south nix I tin can practice nigh it . . . . I guess I'll merely accept my award and run now.
  • Said on being inducted into the Canadian Songwriters Hall of Fame, www.chartattack.com (January 29, 2007)

• I don't similar being too looked up at or too looked down on. I adopt meeting in the middle to existence worshipped or spat out.
  • The New York Times (February 4, 2007)

• …This is a period of relaxation for me, just at that place are still some weeds that need pulling. I kind of become with Thumper, you know, from Bambi. "If you tin can't say anything nice, don't say anything at all." That was my philosophy for a long time as a young person. However, I lost Thumper's guidance as I grew older…He returns from time to fourth dimension.
  • On whether she pulled out all the "weeds in your soul" during her youth in "Joni Mitchell: 'I'm a fool for love. I make the aforementioned mistake over and over'" in The Guardian (2020 Oct 27)

• …It'south, you know, the words to the song are your script. You have to bring the correct emotion to every give-and-take. Y'all know, if you sing it pretty – a lot of people that cover my songs volition sing it pretty – it's going to fall flat. You have to bring more than to information technology than that.
  • On inhabiting the sentiment behind a vocal performance in "Joni Mitchell: 'I'm a fool for love. I make the same mistake over and over'" in The Guardian (2020 Oct 27)

• …I liked playing the coffeehouses, where I could step off the stage and get sit in the audience and be comfy, or where at that place wasn't a bulwark between me and my audience in the clubs. The big stage had no entreatment for me; information technology was too groovy a distance between me and the audition, and I never really liked information technology. I didn't have a lot of fame in the beginning, and that's probably proficient because it made it more enjoyable.
  • On her discomfort with fame in "Joni Mitchell: 'I'yard a fool for dearest. I make the same mistake over and over'" in The Guardian (2020 Oct 27)

• …The after work is much richer and deeper and smarter, and the arrangements are interesting too. Musically I grow, and I grow as a lyricist, and then at that place'south a lot of growth taking place. The early stuff – I shouldn't be such a snob against it. A lot of these songs, I just lost them. They fell away. They only be in these recordings. For then long I rebelled against the term: "I was never a folk singer." I would get pissed off if they put that label on me. I didn't think information technology was a practiced clarification of what I was. And then I listened, and – information technology was beautiful. Information technology fabricated me forgive my beginnings…
  • On comparing her early and afterwards works and coming to terms with existence categorized every bit a folk singer in "Joni Mitchell: 'I'm a fool for love. I make the same error over and over'" in The Guardian (2020 Oct 27)

Woman of Heart and Mind: A Life Story (2003) [edit]

• Any time I make a record it'southward followed by a painting menstruation. Information technology'due south good crop rotation.

• I was demanding of myself a deeper and greater honesty, more and more revelation in my piece of work in order to give it back to the people where it goes into their lives and nourishes them and changes their direction and makes light bulbs become off in their head and makes them feel. And it isn't vague, information technology strikes confronting the very nerves of their life and in order to do that you accept to strike against the very nerves of your own.
  • On the writing catamenia of Blue

• There's been a tremendous amount of growth. An actress is not expected to continue to play her ingenue roles, you know, I've written myself roles to grow into gracefully, simply there is no growing into gracefully in the pop world. Basically the reason I'm so unruly in this business is considering I never wanted to be a human jukebox.

Songs [edit]

• In our possessive coupling
  And so much could not be expressed
  And so at present I'm returning to myself
  These things that yous and I suppressed.
  • "Hejira"

• You lot go downwards to the choice up station
  Craving warmth and beauty
  You settle for less than fascination
  A few drinks subsequently y'all're not so choosy
  When the closing lights strip off the shadows
  On this foreign new flesh yous've found
  Clutching the night to yous like a fig foliage
  Y'all hurry
  To the black
  And the blankets
  To lay down an impression
  And your loneliness.
  • "Downwardly to Y'all" from Court and Spark

• Oh, you lot're in my blood like holy wine,
  You taste so biting and so sweetness
  Oh I could drink a case of y'all, darling
  And I would still be on my feet
  I would still be on my feet.
  • "A Instance of Yous" from Blue

• Rows and flows of angel hair,
  And ice cream castles in the air,
  And plume canyons ev'rywhere,
  I've looked at clouds that mode.
  But now they merely block the sun,
  They rain and snow on ev'ryone,
  So many things I would have washed
  Simply clouds got in my fashion.
  • "Both Sides At present"

• I've looked at clouds from both sides at present,
  From up and down, and still somehow
  It's cloud illusions I call back,
  I really don't know clouds at all.
  • "Both Sides Now"

• Tears and fears and feeling proud,
  To say "I dear you lot" right out loud,
  Dreams and schemes and circus crowds,
  I've looked at life that way.
  But at present old friends are interim strange
  They shake their heads, they say I've changed
  Well something's lost, but something's gained
  In living ev'ry day.
  • "Both Sides Now"

• I've looked at love from both sides now
  From give and take, and still somehow,
  It's beloved'due south illusions I recall
  I really don't know love at all.
  • "Both Sides At present"

• And the seasons they go round and round,
  And the painted ponies go up and down,
  We're all captive on the carousel of time
  We can't return we can only look behind
  From where we came
  And go 'round and 'round and 'circular
  In the circumvolve game.
  • "Circle Game"

• I came upon a kid of god,
  He was walking along the road
  And I asked him, where are yous going
  And this he told me:
  "I'1000 going on downwards to Yasgur's farm
  I'grand going to join in a rock 'northward' curlicue ring
  I'g going to camp out on the land,
  I'm going to endeavour an' get my soul free.
  • "Woodstock"

• I don't know who I am / but you know, life is for learning.
  • "Woodstock"

• We are stardust,
  We are aureate,
  And we've got to go ourselves
  Dorsum to the garden.
  • "Woodstock"

• By the time we got to Woodstock
  We were half a million strong
  And everywhere there was song and celebration.
  And I dreamed I saw the bombers
  Riding shotgun in the sky
  And they were turning into butterflies
  In a higher place our nation.
  • "Woodstock"

• They paved paradise
  And put up a parking lot
  With a pink hotel, a boutique
  and a swinging hot spot.
  • "Big Yellow Taxi"

• Don't information technology always seem to go
  That you don't know what y'all've got
  Till information technology's gone.
  They paved paradise,
  And put up a parking lot.
  • "Big Yellow Taxi"

• They took all the trees
  And put them in a tree museum
  And they charged all the people
  A dollar and a one-half but to see 'em.
  • "Big Yellowish Taxi"

• Hey farmer, farmer,
  Put away that Dichloro-diphenyl-trichloroethane at present
  Give me spots on my apples
  Just go out me the birds and the bees
  Please!
  • "Big Xanthous Taxi"

• I retrieve the time you lot told me, y'all said
  "Love is touching souls,"
  Surely you've touched mine, cause
  Part of you pours out of me
  In these lines from fourth dimension to fourth dimension.
  • "A Case of You" from Blueish

• I wanna be potent,
  I wanna express joy along,
  I wanna belong to the living.
  Alive, alive, I wanna get up and jive,
  Wanna wreck my stockings in some jukebox dive.
  • "All I Desire" from Blueish

• Secrets and sharing soda,
  That's how our time began.
  Love is a story told to a friend
  It's 2nd mitt.
  • "Conversation"

• Some are friendly
  Some are cutting
  Some are watching it from the wings
  Some are standing in the middle giving to get something.
  • "People's Parties"

• Laughing and crying, you know it'south the same release.
  • "People's Parties"

• Friends have told her "Not so proud"
  Neighbors trying to slumber are yelling "Not and then loud"
  Lovers in anger, "Block of ice"
  Harder and harder just to exist prissy.
  • "Shades of Scarlett Conquering" from The Hissing of Summer Lawns

• It'due south coming on Christmas,
  They're cutting down trees.
  They're putting up reindeer
  And singing songs of joy and peace.
  I wish I had a river
  I could skate away on
  • "River" from Blue

About Joni Mitchell [edit]

• Joni, yous have more than form than Richard Nixon, Mick Jagger, and Gomer Pyle combined!
  • Anonymous audience member, recorded on Miles of Aisles

• She is of grade well past the stage of having to prove herself artistically. She is in possession of one of the most extraordinary song catalogs of the by half-century. Her chords break harmonic rules, have no technical names and defy Western musical theory. Her voice is an instrument that has grown sublimely heavier and huskier over the decades. . . .Once you get past the security gates, Ms. Mitchell'southward house feels like a pocket of middle-form condolement in the midst of zillionaire Beverly Hills. In some ways life is still as it was in 1974, when she bought the house: She has no reckoner, no vocalisation mail, no cellphone and no e-mail. At one indicate, when we tried to retrieve one of her lyrics, nosotros scrolled through my iPod. She said information technology was the first time she had listened to ane.
  • The New York Times (February 4, 2007)

• That's the music that I play at domicile all the time, Joni Mitchell. Court and Spark I beloved because I'd e'er hoped that she'd work with a ring. But the primary thing with Joni is that she'southward able to look at something that'southward happened to her, draw back and crystallize the whole situation, then write about information technology. She brings tears to my eyes, what more than can I say? It'southward bloody eerie. I tin can relate then much to what she says. "Now sometime friends are acting strange/They milk shake their heads/They say I've changed".
  • Jimmy Folio in Rolling Rock magazine (March 13, 1975)

• Joni, what fucking chords were you playing on Courtroom and Spark? I could never effigy them out.
  • Ian "Lemmy" Killmeister, as quoted past Robert Trujillo at Lemmy'due south memorial service 01-09-2015

External links [edit]

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Source: https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Joni_Mitchell

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