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" I'm a very analytical person, a somewhat introspective person; that's the nature of the work I do. "
Joni Mitchell
Work
Person
Very
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" 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. "
Joni Mitchell
Start
Trying
Writing
" 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. "
Joni Mitchell
Eyes
Problem
You
" No one likes to have less than they had before. That's the nature of the human animal. "
Joni Mitchell
Animal
Nature
Likes
" 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
" I think I would go further into fine arts, I think, if I were to continue. "
Joni Mitchell
Fine
Arts
Continue
" My goal as a writer is more to comfort than to disturb. "
Joni Mitchell
Comfort
Writer
More
" 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
" With a painting, you don't have to go back and paint it again. "
Joni Mitchell
You
Painting
Paint
" Not to dismiss Gershwin, but Gershwin is the chip; Ellington was the block. "
Joni Mitchell
Dismiss
Gershwin
Chip
" 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
" 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. "
Joni Mitchell
Moral
Me
People
" 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 see bodies as individual things. "
Joni Mitchell
Bodies
Individual
I See
" I had made all these rules for myself: I'm not writing social commentary, I'm not writing love songs. "
Joni Mitchell
Myself
Love
Writing
" For the first time in my career, I'm working in a fine-arts arena, so I'm finally getting some intelligent reviews. "
Joni Mitchell
Career
Time
Intelligent
" Paul Simon started piling up a lot of words, more than the bar could handle, and I stopped! "
Joni Mitchell
Handle
More
Started
" I used to be monastic, almost. Now I'm like a Tibetan that has discovered hamburgers and television. I'm catching up on Americana. "
Joni Mitchell
Almost
Used
Up
" 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. "
Joni Mitchell
Lyrics
Music
See
" 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
Life
Spiritual
Religion
" America is in a runaway-train position and dragging all the world with it. It's grotesquely mentally ill. "
Joni Mitchell
World
Position
America
" I couldn't see passion as a bad thing. "
Joni Mitchell
Bad
Passion
See
" I'm a little young for retirement. "
Joni Mitchell
Young
Little
Retirement
" I'm a Buddhist. "
Joni Mitchell
Buddhist
" When I began experimenting, people weren't ready for it. Once it's in its second and third generational stages, people can accept it. "
Joni Mitchell
People
Accept
Once
" 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. "
Joni Mitchell
People
Talent
Music
" I love to dance. "
Joni Mitchell
Dance
I Love
Love
" I conceived in art college at the age of 20, near the end of term. "
Joni Mitchell
Near
Conceived
Age
" 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
Teacher
Teachers
Romantic
" In some ways, my gift for music and writing was born out of tragedy, really, and loss. "
Joni Mitchell
Tragedy
Gift
Loss
" The songwriting was almost like something I did while I was waiting for my daughter to come back. "
Joni Mitchell
Back
Daughter
Songwriting