Joni Mitchell Quotes About Writing

Quotes about: Writing

• You could write a song about some kind of emotional problem you are having, but it would not be a good song, in my eyes, until it went through a period of sensitivity to a moment of clarity. Without that moment of clarity to contribute to the song, it's just complaining.

  Joni Mitchell

  Music, Song, Writing

  "If You Seek a Moment of Clarity While Complaining, You Just Might Stop Complaining" by Dennis Merritt Jones, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 3, 2012.

• At the point where I'm trying to force something and it's not happening, and I'm getting frustrated with, say, writing a poem, I can go and pick up the brushes and start painting. At the point where the painting seems to not be going anywhere, I go and pick up the guitar.

  Joni Mitchell

  Writing, Guitar, Frustrated

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

  Joni Mitchell

  Writing, Blood, People

• In some ways, my gift for music and writing was born out of tragedy, really, and loss.

  Joni Mitchell

  Writing, Loss, Tragedy

• Ira Gershwin, shame on him. I mean, some of the writing.

  Joni Mitchell

  Writing, Mean, Ira

• I had made all these rules for myself: I'm not writing social commentary, I'm not writing love songs.

  Joni Mitchell

  Song, Writing, Social

• I hang my laundry on the line when I write.

  Joni Mitchell

  Writing, Lines, Laundry

• 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

• 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

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

  Joni Mitchell

  Running, Song, Writing

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