To enjoy my music, you need depth and emotionality. – Joni Mitchell
I dont understand why Europeans and South Americans can take more sophistication. Why is it that Americans need to hear their happiness major and their tragedy minor, and as jazzy as they can handle is a seventh chord? Are they not experiencing complex emotions? – Joni Mitchell
The considerations of a corporation, especially now, have nothing to do with art or music. – Joni Mitchell
I have one piece of music, since 1997, and I dont see it having lyrics. Where does it go in this world? So I havent recorded it. – Joni Mitchell
It is jazz music that called me to be a musician and I have always sang the songs that moved me the most. Singers, like Frank Sinatra and myself, we interpret the songs that we like. Not unlike a Shakespearean actor that goes back to the greatest words ever written, we go back to the greatest songs. – Harry Connick, Jr.