Top 102 Quotes by Joni Mitchell

My first four albums covered the usual youth problems - looking for love in all the wrong places - while the next five are basically about being in your 30s.

What I do is unusual: chordal movements that have never been used before, changing keys and modalities mid-song.

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.

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

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

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.

White rhythm is waltzes, marches, and the polka. In Africa, rhythm is used for a celebratory groove, but white rhythm doesn't have such an enormous vocabulary of spirits. It's basically militant.

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.