In some ways, my gift for music and writing was born out of tragedy, really, and loss. – Joni Mitchell
There was this mountain village in Russia where my music was getting in on some German radio station. I remember this because music used to get up to Saskatchewan from Texas. Late at night after the local station closed down. – Joni Mitchell
Eventually, with success, I started to feel more and more isolated – like I didnt have a community of artists. – Joni Mitchell
I came through folk music simply because it was easy to get into it. – Joni Mitchell
Take the so-called standard of living. What do most people mean by “living”? They don’t mean living. They mean the latest and closest plural approximation to singular prenatal passivity which science, in its finite but unbounded wisdom, has succeeded in selling their wives. – e.e. cummings, Introduction, Poems, 1954