Joni Mitchell People Quotations

I come from pioneer stock, developers of the West, people who went out into the wilderness and set up home with nothing but a pair of oxen.

I thrive on change. That's probably why my chord changes are weird, because chords depict emotions. They'll be going along on one key and I'll drop off a cliff, and suddenly they will go into a whole other key signature. That will drive some people crazy, but that's how my life is.

I heard someone from the music business saying they are no longer looking for talent, they want people with a certain look and a willingness to cooperate.

We have a war dictator who was not elected, he snuck in. so he punishes people that threaten him in any way, or even say something he doesn't like. It has no resemblance to democracy.

If I'm censoring for anyone, it's for my parents. They are very old-fashioned and moral people. They still don't understand me that well.

Nobody understood The Reoccurring Dream, but after September 11, when we were coerced to do a national duty and go out and shop, surely people could begin to see what I was getting at.

People used to say nobody can sing my songs but me, they're too personal.

When I began experimenting, people weren't ready for it. Once it's in its second and third generational stages, people can accept it.

People think it's being remodeled, ... I tell them, and they say, 'What? What do you mean they're tearing down the old high-school building?'

Lazy reviewers look up other people's reviews and they write the same thing, so you get people writing crap based on crap.

I liked playing in small clubs. I really liked holding the attention of thirty or forty people. I never liked the roar of the big crowd.

I like my freedom. I like to do my own grocery shopping. People do recognize you. They are kind of shocked. Some people like it. It makes them feel at ease. It confirms their hopes that you are in fact similar to them.

Some people are upset to see you doing ordinary things. Those people, if they were a celebrity, they would have an entourage.

I was young for my age. Not as naïve as they expected. I don't know why I seem to bring that out in people.

You can give me 400,000 hostile people and I won't even break sweat. If you give me 200 adoring people, my mouth will dry out.

When I felt that fame, people were nosing me out, well I moved on. I used traveling names. Wigs, if necessary.

People were very protective of me. Overly so. I was in the industry for a long time before I had any idea of what drugs people were doing.

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

I didn't like the sound of people gasping at the mere mention of my name. It horrified me.

Ask anyone in America where the craziest people live and they'll tell you California. Ask anyone in California where the craziest people live and they'll say Los Angeles. Ask anyone in Los Angeles where the craziest people live and they'll tell you Hollywood. Ask anyone in Hollywood where the craziest people live and they'll say Laurel Canyon. And ask anyone in Laurel Canyon where the craziest people live and they'll say Lookout Mountain. So I bought a house on Lookout Mountain.

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.