Joni Mitchell quotes

Joni Mitchell is a Canadian singer-songwriter, painter, and producer, widely regarded as one of the most influential musicians of her generation. Her poetic lyrics and innovative musical style have earned her critical acclaim and inspired countless artists across genres. She continues to be celebrated for her contributions to music and art. Here are 143 of her quotes:

And the seasons they go round and round, And the painted ponies go up and down, We're all captive on the carousel of time We can't return we can only look behind From where we came And go 'round and 'round and 'round In the circle game.

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Laughing and crying, you know it's the same release.

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

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I was demanding of myself a deeper and greater honesty, more and more revelation in my work in order to give it back to the people where it goes into their lives and nourishes them and changes their direction and makes light bulbs go off in their head and makes them feel. And it isn't vague, it strikes against the very nerves of their life and in order to do that you have to strike against the very nerves of your own.

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I've looked at love from both sides now From give and take, and still somehow, It's love's illusions I recall I really don't know love at all.

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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.

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We are stardust, We are golden, And we've got to get ourselves Back to the garden.

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There are things to confess that enrich the world, and things that need not be said.

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

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Fame is a series of misunderstandin gs surrounding a name.

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I could drink a case of you, darlin'... and I would still be on my feet, yes I would still be on my feet...

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Oh, you're in my blood like holy wine, You taste so bitter and so sweet Oh I could drink a case of you, darling And I would still be on my feet I would still be on my feet.

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Daydreamin' drugs the pain of living.

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

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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.

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That's one thing that's always, like, been a difference between, like, the performing arts, and being a painter, you know. A painter does a painting, and he paints it, and that's it, you know. He has the joy of creating it, it hangs on a wall, and somebody buys it, and maybe somebody buys it again, or maybe nobody buys it and it sits up in a loft somewhere until he dies. But he never, you know, nobody ever, nobody ever said to Van Gogh, 'Paint a Starry Night again, man!

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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.

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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.

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Don't it always seem to go That you don't know what you've got Till it's gone. They paved paradise, And put up a parking lot.

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We love our lovin'.... but not like we love our freedom.

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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.

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Just before our love got lost you said "I am as constant as a northern star" And I said, constantly in the darkness, Where's that at? If you want me I'll be in the bar.

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