Top 102 Quotes by Joni Mitchell

This is a nation that has lost the ability to be self-critical, and that makes a lie out of the freedoms.

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

Augustine, Anne Sexton and Sylvia Plath are confessional writers and all three make me sick. I have nothing in common with them.

I'm irresponsible to my career in order to paint. Because painting is obsessive. I forget to eat. I forget to sleep.

I learned a woman is never an old woman.

My life came down to being a granny and watching a lot of television.

America is in a runaway-train position and dragging all the world with it. It's grotesquely mentally ill.

I get the same charge from juxtaposition of colors as I do from juxtaposition of chords.

You know, Neil Young is singing Rock n' roll will never die, and Neil never rocked and rolled in his life. I mean, he rocked, but he didn't roll. He has got no swing in him.

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.