Quote

Yesterday a child came out to wonder Caught a dragonfly inside a jar Fearful when the sky was full of thunder And tearful at the falling of a star

Joni Mitchell

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Joni Mitchell
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: November 7
Guitarist
Musician
Painter
Photographer
Poet
Record Producer
Recording Artist
Singer
Songwriter
Roberta Joan Anderson
Roberta Joan Joni Mitchell
Child
Sky
Dragonfly
Fall
Star
Tearful
Children
Caught
Dragonflies
Inside
Jars
Full
Thunder
Wonder
Fearful
Came
Falling
Stars
Yesterday

More quotes by Joni Mitchell

Image
I loved Debussy, Stravinsky, Chopin, Tchaikovsky, anything with romantic melodies, especially the nocturnes. Nietzsche was a hero, especially with Thus Spoke Zarathustra. He gets a bad rap hes very misunderstood. Hes a maker of individuals, and he was a teacher of teachers.
Joni Mitchell
Image
If you're smart or rich or lucky Maybe you'll beat the laws of man But the inner laws of spirit And the outer laws of nature No man can
Joni Mitchell
Image
Oh it gets so lonely When you're walking And the streets are full of strangers
Joni Mitchell
Image
I've looked at life from both sides now...from win and lose, and still somehow it's life's illusions I recall I really don't know life at all.
Joni Mitchell
Image
I have always thought of myself as a painter derailed by circumstance.
Joni Mitchell
Image
Laughing and crying, you know it's the same release.
Joni Mitchell
Image
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
Image
The thing that started me painting originally was seeing Bambi when I was about nine. I was incredibly disturbed by the forest fire that killed Bambi's mother, and that distress gave me the impulse to create something, as a way of dealing with it.
Joni Mitchell
Image
You've got to keep the child alive you can't create without it.
Joni Mitchell
Image
I assume there must be some kind of genetic thrust. My two grandmothers were very different, but both of them were frustrated musicians.
Joni Mitchell
Image
In terms of fiction, I'd rather go out and have a good time than read a book about someone having a good or bad time.
Joni Mitchell
Image
I create by feeling rather than by intellectualizing.
Joni Mitchell
Image
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.
Joni Mitchell
Image
Musically, I don't think I'd ever dry up. I trust my musical invention.
Joni Mitchell
Image
With a painting, you don't have to go back and paint it again.
Joni Mitchell
Image
What I do is unusual: chordal movements that have never been used before, changing keys and modalities mid-song.
Joni Mitchell
Image
My style of songwriting is influenced by cinema. I'm a frustrated filmmaker. A fan once said to me, 'Girl, you make me see pictures in my head!' and I took that as a great compliment. That's exactly my intention.
Joni Mitchell
Image
Oh, the jealousy, the greed is the unraveling. It's the unraveling and it undoes all the joy that could be. .
Joni Mitchell
Image
Some turn to Jesus and some turn to heroin.
Joni Mitchell
Image
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.
Joni Mitchell