Mitchell Quotes

I think everything Joni Mitchell did for music was big.
Maynard James Keenan

Music, Everything, Big

You know, I grew up listening to Joni Mitchell.
Maynard James Keenan

Listening, Joni

Like Joseph Mitchell, I would scour the streets of New York and find little pieces of what other people think of as junk - and collect it.
Stanley Tucci

Find, York, Pieces

I would make tea for Joni Mitchell or clean her car, anything to be in the studio and watch her work.
Sheena Easton

I'm an old-school, embarrassing Joni Mitchell fan. Her music made a hook in my soul and hasn't let go for all these years. I even sing her songs as lullabies to my kids.
Edie Falco

Music, Made, Soul

Definitely I grew up listening to Joni Mitchell, and I think she is a wonderful writer, so she is probably part of me.
Jane Siberry

Wonderful, She, Writer

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

Great, Light, Listening

Joni Mitchell seems destined to remain in a state of permanent dissatisfaction - always knowing what she would like to do, always more depressed when it's done.
Jon Landau

Done, She, Knowing

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

Music, Writing, Why

I'd read Up in the Old Hotel, and I wanted to do something with Mitchell's stuff for a long time.
Stanley Tucci

Time, Long, Old

Chelsea Morning is a great Joni Mitchell song and I guess I'm partial to her lyrics because they show me a slightly different perspective on life.
Neil Diamond

Life, Great, Morning

'Gone With The Wind' is one of the all-time greats. Read Margaret Mitchell's book and watch the film again; it's a soap opera in all its glory. It is superb and memorable.
Timothy Dalton

Book, Again, Wind

And for some reason, when I'm sad, I do listen to Leonard Cohen, I do listen to Joni Mitchell. I do find myself going to the music that's actually reflecting my mood, as opposed to sticking on Motown, which might actually bring my mood up.
Glen Hansard

Music, Sad, Find

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

Music, Angry, Lost

Why would I want to sound like Joni Mitchell? I've got Joni Mitchell records, and they're great, and I couldn't possibly be that good.
Ben Folds

Good, Great, Why

My friends and I took songwriting very, very seriously. My hero was and still is Bob Dylan, but also people like Leonard Cohen and Joni Mitchell and that whole generation.
Kazuo Ishiguro

Hero, Friends, Whole

I am disappointed that my 25 years in public life have apparently not earned me the benefit of the doubt, but I understand that Senator Mitchell's report has raised many serious questions. I plan to publicly answer all of those questions at the appropriate time in the appropriate way. I only ask that in the meantime people not rush to judgment.
Roger Clemens

Life, Time, Doubt

So my father grew up in an orphanage in Boston. He was then adopted by an elderly childless couple from Maine, who gave him the name of Mitchell. He moved to Maine, and there he met my mother and was married.
George J. Mitchell

Mother, Father, Him

I'm a commercial writer, not an author. Margaret Mitchell was an author. She wrote one book.
Mickey Spillane

Book, She, Writer

I talked with Brian Stokes Mitchell, who agreed with me that if you have a gift there is always stuff to do.
Estelle Parsons

Gift, Stuff, Brian

The fact is that a car used by Gerry Adams and myself during the course of the Mitchell review was bugged by elements within British military intelligence.
Martin McGuinness

Car, Fact, Used

Hendrix rehearsed different drummers, before we met Mitch Mitchell.
Noel Redding

Different, Before, Drummers

So I think that in the beginning of your career you're just looking to work. Luckily for me, my first movie was 'Rabbit Hole' and I got to work with incredible people, a Pulitzer prize winning writer, John Cameron Mitchell, and all the actors involved. So it's tough, man, because you want to have credibility.
Miles Teller

Work, Winning, Career

I have been influenced by many different artists at many different stages of my life. Starting out, it was people like Elton John, Billy Joel, Ben Folds, and Fiona Apple. As I got older I got deeper into the work of bands like the Beatles, artists like Sam Cooke, Ray Charles, Etta James, and Joni Mitchell.
Sara Bareilles

Life, Work, Different

I don't know any guitar player, any of the real greats, who don't rate Joni Mitchell up there with the best of them.
Chrissie Hynde

Best, Real, Guitar

The writers that I aspire to, like Joni Mitchell and Randy Newman, they'll tell you that the work gets harder, not easier. And they set that bar for us where we're always striving to do something better than the last time, whether it's the next song or just the next line.
Christopher Cross

Work, Time, Tell

I picked all the tunes before I went to Memphis, and the band was all set. Willie Mitchell is an arranger like I am, and he let me do what I had to do.
Otis Rush

Before, Band, Memphis

I think I learned about the relationship between books and life from Margaret Mitchell.
Pat Conroy

Life, Learned, Between

There were bars that began to have acoustic musicians play, it was 1970: Joni Mitchell, Jackson Browne, America, The Eagles, all that kind of stuff was popular. It was very easy for me to just kind of move in and be noticed.
Shawn Colvin

America, Play, Easy

Bill Mitchell said he really liked it. But when he asked the other four their opinions, we all took one look at ourselves in our raggedy long winter coats and cracked up. We knew we weren't likely to tempt anyone or anything, but what the hell, it was as good a name as any.
Otis Williams

Good, Long, Hell

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