Joni Quotes

You know, I grew up listening to Joni Mitchell.

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.

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.

I've only been making records since 1991. When you look at the long-standing careers of people like Joni, it's not very long!

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.

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.

I think everything Joni Mitchell did for music was big.

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

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.