Joni Mitchell Quotes

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Secrets and sharing soda,
That's how our time began.
Love is a story told to a friend
It's second hand.

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

Joni Mitchell
Won't you stay We'll put on the day And we'll talk in present tenses

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It's 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

Joni Mitchell
My family consists of pieces of work that go out into the world. Instead of hanging around for nineteen years they leave the nest early.

Joni Mitchell
I need to explore and discover and so that has given me, really, to some what seems like courage, but really it's just in my stars, there's nothing I can do about it.... I guess I'll just take my award and run now.

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

Joni Mitchell
Any time I make a record it's followed by a painting period. It's good crop rotation.

Joni Mitchell
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, but there is no growing into gracefully in the pop world. Basically the reason I'm so unruly in this business is because I never wanted to be a human jukebox.

Joni Mitchell
Do you see how you hurt me, baby? So I hurt you too. Then we both get so blue. I am on a lonely road and I am traveling, looking for the key to set me free.

Joni Mitchell
Will you take me as I am? Strung out on another man...California, I'm comin' home.

Joni Mitchell
I don't like being too looked up at or too looked down on. I prefer meeting in the middle to being worshipped or spat out.

Joni Mitchell