Latest Joni Mitchell Quotes from Interviews

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• 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.

  Joni Mitchell

  Shopping, People, Ease

• I try not to steal from myself, but the modalities create similarities.

  Joni Mitchell

  Trying, Stealing, Similarity

• Musically, I don't think I'd ever dry up. I trust my musical invention.

  Joni Mitchell

  Thinking, Dry Up, Musical

  Interview with Joe Smith, jonimitchell.com. November 3, 1986.

• Musically, I would never run dry. Any time I sit down to an instrument, I could write a song.

  Joni Mitchell

  Running, Song, Writing

• I don't know how to sell out. If I tried to sell out I don't think I could.

  Joni Mitchell

  Thinking, Know How, Knows

  Interview with Joe Smith, jonimitchell.com. November 3, 1986.

• I have lost my credibility as a hit maker because of these side excursions into other branches of music; by not being consistent. Consistency seems to be all-important.

  Joni Mitchell

  Consistency, Important, Branches

  Interview with Joe Smith, jonimitchell.com. November 3, 1986.

• I prefer Christmas, which is everybody's holiday. It's just my nature. I don't like to be zeroed in on en masse.

  Joni Mitchell

  Holiday

• 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.

  Joni Mitchell

  Sweat, People, Giving

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

  Joni Mitchell

  Names, People, Sound

  Interview with Joe Smith, jonimitchell.com. November 3, 1986.

• I never really wanted to be a star. I didn't like entering a room with all eyes on me. I still don't really like the attention of a birthday party.

  Joni Mitchell

  Stars, Party, Eye

• I was anti-intellectual to the nth. Basically I liked to dance and paint, and that was about it.

  Joni Mitchell

  Intellectual, Paint

• 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.

  Joni Mitchell

  People, Attention, Crowds

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

  Joni Mitchell

  Names, People, Moved On

  Interview with Joe Smith, jonimitchell.com. November 3, 1986.

• I didn't think I had much of a following in the South. I thought I was anonymous down there so I kept to the South. But I found in certain pockets that I was quite recognizable and I just hit a wig store.

  Joni Mitchell

  Thinking, Pockets, Wigs

  Interview with Joe Smith, jonimitchell.com. November 3, 1986.

• I like to move around. I travel. I've driven across country by myself.

  Joni Mitchell

  Country, Moving, Driven

  Interview with Joe Smith, jonimitchell.com. November 3, 1986.

• I like my freedom. I like to do my own grocery shopping.

  Joni Mitchell

  Shopping, Grocery Shopping, Groceries

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

  Joni Mitchell

  People, Upset, Ordinary

• 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.

  Joni Mitchell

  Ideas, Long, People

• 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.

  Joni Mitchell

  California, America, People

• Rolling Stone hates me. They must have an editorial policy to do me in for many years.

  Joni Mitchell

  Hate, Years, Rolling

• Fibers in a variety of colors protrude out of my skin like mushrooms after a rainstorm. They cannot be forensically identified as animal, vegetable or mineral.

  Joni Mitchell

  Animal, Color, Vegetables

  "It's a Joni Mitchell concert, sans Joni" by Matt Diehl, articles.latimes.com. April 22, 2010.

• My husband had an education. He had a degree in Literature. I married into a camp of literary types.

  Joni Mitchell

  Husband, Degrees, Literature

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

  Joni Mitchell

  Writing, People, Lazy

• Once I got the open tunings for some reason, I began to get the harmonic sophistication that I heard that my musical fountain inside was excited by. Once I got some interesting chords to play with, my writing began to come.

  Joni Mitchell

  Writing, Play, Interesting

• When I was 19 I went to art school. I had six months of teaching myself to play baritone ukulele under my belt so I was sort of a novice folkie... I was singing folk songs at that time.

  Joni Mitchell

  Song, Art, Teaching

  Interview with Joe Smith, jonimitchell.com. November 3, 1986.