I don't like being too looked up at or too looked down on. I prefer meeting in the middle to being worshiped or spat out.

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• Joni Mitchell:

  My heart is broken in the face of the stupidity of my species.

• Joni Mitchell:

  White rhythm is waltzes, marches, and the polka. In Africa, rhythm is used for a celebratory groove

• Joni Mitchell:

  Americans have decided to be stupid and shallow since 1980.

• Joni Mitchell:

  My first four albums covered the usual youth problems - looking for love in all the wrong places -

• Joni Mitchell:

  My individual, psychological descent coincided, ironically, with my ascent into the public eye.

• Joni Mitchell:

  I heard someone from the music business saying they are no longer looking for talent, they want peo

• Joni Mitchell:

  The considerations of a corporation, especially now, have nothing to do with art or music.

• Joni Mitchell:

  I lost my daughter at 21. I had to give her up because I was broke, no place to take her, no money

• Joni Mitchell:

  My goal as a writer is more to comfort than to disturb.

• Joni Mitchell:

  I'd had a rough childhood.