Joni Mitchell Quotes

We're captive on the carousel of time, we can't return we can only look behind.

Keep a good heart. That's the most important thing in life. It's not how much money you make or what you can acquire. The art of it is to keep a good heart.

When the world becomes a massive mess with nobody at the helm, it's time for artists to make their mark.

Chase away the demons, and they will take the angels with them.

We are stardust, we are golden and we've got to get ourselves back to the garden.

Freedom to me is a luxury of being able to follow the path of the heart, to keep the magic in your life. Freedom is necessary for me in order to create, and if I cannot create I don’t feel alive.

Depression can be the sand that makes the pearl. Most of my best work came out of it.

Moons and Junes and Ferris wheels The dizzy dancing way you feel As every fairy tale comes real I've looked at love that way.

Ira Gershwin, shame on him. I mean, some of the writing.

Give me spots on my apples, but leave me the birds and the bees, please.

All my battles were with male egos. I’m just looking for equality, not to dominate. But I want to be able to control my vision.

Oh, the jealousy, the greed is the unraveling. It's the unraveling and it undoes all the joy that could be. .

I am as constant as a northern star

people will tell you were they have gone, they'll tell you where to go, but until you get there for yourself you never really know.

A few drinks later you're not so choosy when the closing lights strip off the shadows on this strange new flesh you've found.

My heart is broken in the face of the stupidity of my species.

All I really, really want our love to do is to bring out the best in me and in you too.

Rationally I have no hope, irrationally I believe in miracles.

You've got to keep the child alive; you can't create without it.

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.

Lord, there's danger in this land, you get witch hunts and wars when church and state hold hands.

Yesterday a child came out to wonder Caught a dragonfly inside a jar Fearful when the sky was full of thunder And tearful at the falling of a star

The only thing I have to give to make you smile, to win you with, are all the mornings still to live.

The most important thing is to write in your own blood. I bare intimate feelings because people should know how other people feel.

They won't give peace a chance, that's just a dream some of us had

All romantics meet the same fate some day. Drunk and cynical and boring someone in some dark cafe.

I see music as fluid architecture.

The thing that gave me the most pain in life, psychologically, and it gave me tremendous pain psychologically, is man's disrespect for nature.

The times you impress me the most are the times when you don't try.

Whatever it was that I felt was the weak link in my previous project gave me inspiration for the next one.

There'll be icicles and birthday clothes And sometimes there'll be sorrow

I am a woman of heart and mind, looking for affection and respect, a little passion.

Fly silly sea bird, no dreams can possess you, no voices can blame you for sun on your wings.

When I think of your kisses my mind see-saws.

I wanna be strong, I wanna laugh along, I wanna belong to the living. Alive, alive, I wanna get up and jive, Wanna wreck my stockings in some jukebox dive.

My family could only afford to get me the box of eight Crayola crayons, but I craved the one with all 24 colours. I wanted magenta and turquoise and silver and gold.

They paved paradise and put up a parking lot.

The God of the Old Testament is the depiction of evil.

They took all the trees and put them in a tree museum.

Let light hearts remake us.

If you're smart or rich or lucky Maybe you'll beat the laws of man But the inner laws of spirit And the outer laws of nature No man can

I wish I had a river I could skate away on?

Don't it always seem to go, that you don't know what you've got till it's gone.

I used to be monastic, almost. Now I'm like a Tibetan that has discovered hamburgers and television. I'm catching up on Americana.

To enjoy my music, you need depth and emotionality.

Land of snap decisions, land of short attention spans, nothing is savored long enough to really understand.

Daydreamin' drugs the pain of living.

Americans have decided to be stupid and shallow since 1980.

Some get the gravy, some get the gristle.

I don't know who I am but you know, life is for learning.