Joni Mitchell Quotes

“Oh you're in my blood like holy wine
You taste so bitter and so sweet
Oh I could drink a case of you darling
And I would still be on my feet
Oh I would still be on my feet”
― Joni Mitchell, Joni Mitchell: The Complete Poems and Lyrics

“We are stardust
Billion-year old carbon
And we've got to get ourselves back to the garden”
― Joni Mitchell, Joni Mitchell: The Complete Poems and Lyrics

“You've got to shake your fists at lightning now, you've got to roar like forest fire
You've got to spread your light like blazes all across the sky
They're going to aim the hoses on you, show 'em you won't expire
Not till you burn up every passion, not even when you die
Come on now, you've got to try, if you're feeling contempt, well then you tell it
If you're tired of the silent night, Jesus, well then you yell it
Condemned to wires and hammers, strike every chord that you feel
That broken trees and elephant ivories conceal”
― Joni Mitchell, Joni Mitchell: The Complete Poems and Lyrics

“I'm porous with travel fever
But you know I'm so glad to be on my own
Still somehow the slightest touch of a stranger
Can set up trembling in my bones.
I know no one's going to show me everything
We all come and go unknown
Each so deep and superficial
Between the forceps and the stone.”
― Joni Mitchell, Joni Mitchell: The Complete Poems and Lyrics

“Sitting in a park in Paris, France,
Reading the news and it sure looks bad.
They won't give peace a chance.
That was just a dream some of us had.”
― Joni Mitchell, Joni Mitchell: The Complete Poems and Lyrics