Joni Mitchell Quotes
Roberta Joan Anderson on November 7, 1943
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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
"River" from Blue 
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More Joni Mitchell Quotes
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— Said on being inducted into the Canadian Songwriters Hall of Fame, www.chartattack.com (January 29, 2007)
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— The New York Times (February 4, 2007)
In our possessive coupling So much could not be expressed So now I'm returning to myself These things that you and I suppressed.
Joni Mitchell— "Hejira" (Songs)
You go down to the pick up station Craving warmth and beauty You settle for less than fascination 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 Clutching the night to you like a fig leaf You hurry To the blackness And the blankets To lay down an impression And your loneliness.
Joni Mitchell— "Down to You" from Court and Spark
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.
Joni Mitchell— "A Case of You" from Blue
Rows and flows of angel hair, And ice cream castles in the air, And feather canyons ev’rywhere, I’ve looked at clouds that way. But now they only block the sun, They rain and snow on ev’ryone, So many things I would have done But clouds got in my way.
Joni Mitchell— "Both Sides Now"
I’ve looked at clouds from both sides now, From up and down, and still somehow It’s cloud illusions I recall, I really don’t know clouds at all.
Joni Mitchell— "Both Sides Now"
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.
Joni Mitchell— "Both Sides Now"
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.
Joni Mitchell— "Circle Game"
I came upon a child of god, He was walking along the road And I asked him, where are you going And this he told me: "I’m going on down to Yasgur’s farm I’m going to join in a rock ’n’ roll band I’m going to camp out on the land, I’m going to try an’ get my soul free.
Joni Mitchell— "Woodstock" (Songs)
I don't know who I am / but you know, life is for learning.
Joni Mitchell— "Woodstock" (Songs)
We are stardust, We are golden, And we’ve got to get ourselves Back to the garden.
Joni Mitchell— "Woodstock" (Songs)
By the time we got to Woodstock We were half a million strong And everywhere there was song and celebration. And I dreamed I saw the bombers Riding shotgun in the sky And they were turning into butterflies Above our nation.
Joni Mitchell— "Woodstock" (Songs)
They paved paradise And put up a parking lot With a pink hotel, a boutique and a swinging hot spot.
Joni Mitchell— "Big Yellow Taxi"
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.
Joni Mitchell— "Big Yellow Taxi"
They took all the trees And put them in a tree museum And they charged all the people A dollar and a half just to see 'em.
Joni Mitchell— "Big Yellow Taxi"
Hey farmer, farmer, Put away that DDT now Give me spots on my apples But leave me the birds and the bees Please!
Joni Mitchell— "Big Yellow Taxi"
I remember the time you told me, you said "Love is touching souls," Surely you've touched mine, cause Part of you pours out of me In these lines from time to time.
Joni Mitchell— "A Case of You" from Blue
Secrets and sharing soda, That's how our time began. Love is a story told to a friend It's second hand.
Joni Mitchell— "Conversation"
Some are friendly Some are cutting Some are watching it from the wings Some are standing in the centre giving to get something.
Joni Mitchell— "People's Parties"
Laughing and crying, you know it's the same release.
Joni Mitchell— "People's Parties"
Friends have told her "Not so proud" Neighbors trying to sleep are yelling "Not so loud" Lovers in anger, "Block of ice" Harder and harder just to be nice.
Joni Mitchell— "Shades of Scarlett Conquering" from The Hissing of Summer Lawns
Joni, you have more class than Richard Nixon, Mick Jagger, and Gomer Pyle combined!
Joni Mitchell— Audience member, recorded on Miles of Aisles
