Top 100 Joni Quotes
#1. We love our lovin' ... but not like we love our freedom.
Joni Mitchell
#2. The weaker I am, the harder I must lean on God's grace; the harder I lean on him, the stronger I discover him to be, and the bolder my testimony to his grace.
Joni Eareckson Tada
#3. Heartache forces us to embrace God out of desparate, urgent need. God is never closer than when your heart is aching.
Joni Eareckson Tada
#6. It's [Joni Mitchell's "A Case of You"] been one of my favorite songs for my entire life.
Jane Monheit
#7. White rhythm is waltzes, marches, and the polka. In Africa, rhythm is used for a celebratory groove, but white rhythm doesn't have such an enormous vocabulary of spirits. It's basically militant.
Joni Mitchell
#8. I was really lost for a while in my teens. I was angry. But when I found music - Bob Dylan, Neil Young, Joni Mitchell - it was a new discovery. It was a door to this other world where I wanted to be.
Ray Lamontagne
#9. When you love a song so much you have to sing, you know how you feel - it releases something in you that resonates as true, whether it's James Brown or Joni Mitchell.
Bonnie Raitt
#10. I was able to see the love of God paving the world around me but I distrusted this knowledge because it was concrete.
Joni Tevis
#11. I'm a fine artist working in a commercial arena, so that's my cross to bear
Joni Mitchell
#12. When the world becomes a massive mess with nobody at the helm, it's time for artists to make their mark.
Joni Mitchell
#13. I was in every club and extra-curricular activity at high school, and I was in the National Honor Society.
Joni Eareckson Tada
#14. I know my generation - a lot of them, they're getting old now, and they want to think back fondly, they want to kid themselves. A lot of them think, 'Yeah, we were the best.' That's the kiss of death. That's non-growth. And also that's very bad for the world.
Joni Mitchell
#16. Do you want - do you want - do you want to dance with me baby?
Joni Mitchell
#18. Let's shut down the EPA. The state knows best how to protect resources.
Joni Ernst
#19. 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; he's very misunderstood. He's a maker of individuals, and he was a teacher of teachers.
Joni Mitchell
#20. Depression can be the sand that makes the pearl. Most of my best
work came out of it.
Joni Mitchell
#21. Acid, booze, and ass, needles, guns, and grass, lots of laughs.
Joni Mitchell
#23. Well something's lost but something's gained in living every day.
Joni Mitchell
#24. I did a song, "Court and Spark," for a Joni Mitchell tribute album that's yet to see the light of day. So she's someone I'd like to do something with, sure. I worked with the great guitar player Bill Frisell on Phantom Moon - that was fun. I'm such a fan; he's amazing.
Duncan Sheik
#25. What I do is unusual: chordal movements that have never been used before, changing keys and modalities mid-song.
Joni Mitchell
#26. I come from pioneer stock, developers of the West, people who went out into the wilderness and set up home with nothing but a pair of oxen.
Joni Mitchell
#27. Right away I thought I'd been hit by a hand grenade ... her (Joni Mitchells') voice, those words ... she nailed me to the back wall with two-inch spikes ... I promptly fell in love with her ...
David Crosby
#28. As a soldier and combat veteran, I believe American military forces should only be used in the defense and furtherance of our nation's vital interests.
Joni Ernst
#29. When you're trying to pass on the best of the stuff you're culling to what should be a hungry culture but you have it diminished ... that's kind of disappointing.
Joni Mitchell
#31. Paul Simon started piling up a lot of words, more than the bar could handle, and I stopped!
Joni Mitchell
#32. You just need the freedom to dream big and a whole lot of hard work.
Joni Ernst
#33. And the seasons they go 'round and 'round
And the painted ponies go up and down
We're captive on the carousel of time
We can't return we can only look behind
From where we came
And go round and round and round
In the circle game.
Joni Mitchell
#34. Rationally I have no hope, irrationally I believe in miracles.
Joni Mitchell
#35. If I'm censoring for anyone, it's for my parents. They are very old-fashioned and moral people. They still don't understand me that well.
Joni Mitchell
#37. Here in the sub-Sahara, it seemed that the weaker people were, the harder they had to lean on God - and the harder they leaned on him, the greater their joy.
Joni Eareckson Tada
#38. Americans are nervous; Americans are restless; and what troubles me the most is that Americans are uncharacteristically pessimistic.
Joni Eareckson Tada
#39. The rock & roll industry is very incestuous, and we have all been close at one time or another. A lot of beautiful music and a lot of beautiful times came from that. A lot of pain, too, because, inevitably, different relationships broke up.
Joni Mitchell
#40. I never loved a man as far as I could pitch my shoe.
Joni Mitchell
#41. 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
#42. Ira Gershwin, shame on him. I mean, some of the writing.
Joni Mitchell
#43. Nobody understood The Reoccurring Dream, but after September 11, when we were coerced to do a national duty and go out and shop, surely people could begin to see what I was getting at.
Joni Mitchell
#44. As a bit of loner, prone to melancholy, with a questionable sexuality, I found great solace in the words of-Dylan, Joni, John Prine and Leonard Cohen. The darker the better.
Jill Sobule
#45. Sorrow is so easy to express and yet so hard to tell.
Joni Mitchell
#46. It is a glorious thing to know that your Father God makes no mistakes in directing or permitting that which crosses the path of your life. It is the glory of God to conceal a matter. It is our glory to trust Him, no matter what.
Joni Eareckson Tada
#47. Fear is like the wilderland - Stepping stones or sinking sand
Joni Mitchell
#48. One of the biggest obstacles I've overcome in my life was thinking I didn't deserve to be successful. Artistically I'm not as much of a heavyweight as someone like Paul Simon or Joni Mitchell, because I'm not a creator of original music, and I worried about that for years.
Bonnie Raitt
#49. I don't 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
#51. My family could only afford to get me the box of eight Crayola crayons, but I craved the one with all 24 colours. I wanted magenta and turquoise and silver and gold.
Joni Mitchell
#52. When life is rosy, we may slide by with knowing about Jesus, with imitating him and quoting him and speaking of him. But only in suffering will we know Jesus.
Joni Eareckson Tada
#53. On first listening, Joni Mitchell's 'Court And Spark,' the first truly great pop album of 1974, sounds surprisingly light; by the third or fourth listening, it reveals its underlying tensions.
Jon Landau
#54. Joni Mitchell had it right: "They paved paradise / and put up a parking lot." But perhaps, in the near future, we could add a line of hopeful epilogue to that song: then they tore down the parking lot / and raised up a paradise
Richard Louv
#55. But you know it's hard to tell
When you're in the spell if it's wrong or if it's real
But you're bound to lose
If you let the blues get you scared to feel
Joni Mitchell
#56. People have these incredible expectations. So instead of being inspired by, say, Joni Mitchell's music, I look at it and say to myself, 'I'm going to quit - why would I think of writing or performing after listening to that?'
Idina Menzel
#57. Bob [Dylan] is not authentic at all. He's a plagiarist, and his name and voice are fake. Everything about Bob is a deception. We are like night and day, he and I.
Joni Mitchell
#58. I'm not a kiss-and-teller. I never named names.
Joni Mitchell
#59. AS a matter of fact, God isn't asking you to be thankful. He's asking you to give thanks. There's a big difference. One response involves emotions, the other your choices, your decisions about a situation, your intent, your 'step of faith.
Joni Eareckson Tada
#60. Oh, my goodness, when you're a mother and you just give birth to a child with spina bifida and - or Down's Syndrome or cerebral palsy, there's a bit of a shock you're going to have to go through, a bit of an adjustment curve.
Joni Eareckson Tada
#61. I'm not a pitiable creature. It's just that I suffer very eloquently.
Joni Mitchell
#62. The Christian faith is meant to be lived moment by moment. It isn't some broad, general outline
it's a long walk with a real Person. Details count: passing thoughts, small sacrifices, a few encouraging words, little acts of kindness, brief victories over nagging sins.
Joni Eareckson Tada
#65. 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. I found in certain pockets that I was quite recognizable, and I just hit a wig store.
Joni Mitchell
#66. I used to be monastic, almost. Now I'm like a Tibetan that has discovered hamburgers and television. I'm catching up on Americana.
Joni Mitchell
#67. 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
#68. Most of the verses written about praise in God's Word were voiced by people who were faced with crushing heartaches, injustice, treachery, slander, and scores of other difficult situations.
Joni Eareckson Tada
#69. I've always associated consciousness with artists like Bob Marley or Joni Mitchell or Bob Dylan. You know, artists that really talked about what was going on in the world and really artists that are timeless.
Will Ferrell
#71. Oh, how we need to grasp the soul-settling hope found in the pages of God's Word--not only grasp it, but allow the hope of God to fill and overflow our hearts, transforming us into people who are confident and at peace with themselves, their God, and their circumstances.
Joni Eareckson Tada
#72. I'm a method actress in my songs, which is why it's hard to sing them.
Joni Mitchell
#73. Richard got married to a figure skater, and he bought her a dishwasher and a coffee percolator.
Joni Mitchell
#74. I would make tea for Joni Mitchell or clean her car, anything to be in the studio and watch her work.
Sheena Easton
#75. In New York, the street adventures are incredible. There are a thousand stories in a single block. You see the stories in the people's faces. You hear the songs immediately. Here in Los Angeles, there are less characters because they're all inside automobiles.
Joni Mitchell
#76. There is nothing that moves a loving father's soul quite like his child's cry.
Joni Eareckson Tada
#77. An artist needs a certain amount of turmoil and confusion.
Joni Mitchell
#79. We need to repeal and replace Obamacare. It is the largest tax in U.S. history, has proven to be a job-killer, and has driven up the cost of healthcare.
Joni Ernst
#80. Things were never any better. It was like feeding healthy cells
Green Joni
#81. We need to preserve programs like Social Security and Medicare for our seniors of today and tomorrow. But we need to strengthen both Social Security and Medicare to make sure these programs are still available for future generations.
Joni Ernst
#82. 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
#83. I lost my daughter at 21. I had to give her up because I was broke, no place to take her, no money to take her. That was very traumatic.
Joni Mitchell
#84. My weakness, that is, my quadriplegia, is my greatest asset because it forces me into the arms of Christ every single morning when I get up.
Joni Eareckson Tada
#85. You know that it never has been easy
Whether you do or do not resign
Whether you travel the breadth of the extremities
Or stick to some straighter line.
Joni Mitchell
#86. 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
#87. Anyone who takes the Bible seriously agrees that God hates suffering. Jesus spent most of his time relieving it. But when being healed becomes the only goal - 'I'm not letting go until I get what I want' - it's a problem.
Joni Eareckson Tada
#88. Adele's voice is incredible. Chet Baker also has one of my favorite voices of all time, and so does Joni Mitchell. And Frank Black. Oh, and Stevie Nicks.
Megan Boone
#90. I'm drinking champagne, got the head phones up high, can't numb you out.
Joni Mitchell
#91. I didn't like the sound of people gasping at the mere mention of my name. It horrified me.
Joni Mitchell
#92. God is more concerned with conforming me to the likeness of His Son than leaving me in my comfort zones. God is more interested in inward qualities than outward circumstances - things like refining my faith, humbling my heart, cleaning up my thought life and strengthening my character.
Joni Eareckson Tada
#93. Heart and humor and humility, he said will lighten up your heavy load.
Joni Mitchell
#94. Eventually, with success, I started to feel more and more isolated - like I didn't have a community of artists.
Joni Mitchell
#95. When I felt that fame, people were nosing me out, well I moved on. I used traveling names. Wigs, if necessary.
Joni Mitchell
#96. Some people are upset to see you doing ordinary things. Those people, if they were a celebrity, they would have an entourage.
Joni Mitchell
#97. But I have a tremendous will to live and a tremendous 'joie de vivre,' alternating with irritability.
Joni Mitchell
#98. I have a tremendous joie de vivre ... alternating with irritability of course.
Joni Mitchell
#99. My life goal is to see the world's one billion people with disabilities embraced and encouraged by the church.
Joni Eareckson Tada
#100. The best we can hope for in this life is a knothole peek at the shining realities ahead. Yet a glimpse is enough. It's enough to convince our hearts that whatever sufferings and sorrow currently assail us aren't worthy of comparison to that which waits over the horizon.
Joni Eareckson Tada
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