“I've looked at life from both sides now From up and down and still somehowIt's life's illusions I recallI really don't know life at all”
Joni Mitchell“I've looked at life from both sides now From up and down and still somehowIt's life's illusions I recallI really don't know life at all”
Joni Mitchell“We are stardustBillion-year old carbonAnd we've got to get ourselves back to the garden”
Joni Mitchell, Joni Mitchell: The Complete Poems and Lyrics“I find a lot of poetry to be narcissistic.”
Joni Mitchell“It's in my stars to invent; I was born on Madame Curie's birthday. I have this need for originals, for innovation. That's why I like Charlie Parker.”
Joni Mitchell“Sorrow is so easy to express and yet so hard to tell.”
Joni Mitchell“You have this mounting aggressive ignorance with the rabbit's foot of their particular religion. You don't really have any kind of spiritual law, just a kind of a rabid mental illness. The songs are a little slice of life.”
Joni Mitchell“I see music as fluid architecture.”
Joni Mitchell“I loved Debussy, Stravinsky, Chopin, Tchaikovsky, anything with romantic melodies, especially the nocturnes. Nietzsche was a hero, especially with 'Thus Spoke Zarathustra.' He gets a bad rap; he's very misunderstood. He's a maker of individuals, and he was a teacher of teachers.”
Joni Mitchell“The thing that gave me the most pain in life, psychologically, and it gave me tremendous pain psychologically, is man's disrespect for nature.”
Joni Mitchell“No one likes to have less than they had before. That's the nature of the human animal.”
Joni Mitchell