#cal

The sparrow that is twittering on the edge of my balcony is calling up to me this moment a world of memories that reach over half my lifetime, and a world of hope that stretches farther than any flight of sparrows. ↗

— Donald G. Mitchell

#balcony #calling #edge #farther #flight

Determine to become one of the best. Sufficient money will almost automatically follow if you get to be one of the "best" in your chosen field, whatever it is. ↗

— Donald G. Mitchell

#automatically #become #best #chosen #determine

As they say, one thing led to another, and, ultimately, the British and Irish governments asked me to serve as chairman of the peace negotiations, which ironically began six years ago this week. ↗

— George J. Mitchell

#another #asked #began #british #chairman

Back then, I didn't have a big organization around me. I was just a kid with a guitar, traveling around. My responsibility basically was to the art, and I had extra time on my hands. There is no extra time now. There isn't enough time. ↗

— Joni Mitchell

#art #back #basically #big #enough

I'm a very analytical person, a somewhat introspective person; that's the nature of the work I do. ↗

— Joni Mitchell

#i #i do #introspective #nature #person

The thing that gave me the most pain in life, psychologically, and it gave me tremendous pain psychologically, is man's disrespect for nature. ↗

— Joni Mitchell

#gave #life #man #me #most

There was this mountain village in Russia where my music was getting in on some German radio station. I remember this because music used to get up to Saskatchewan from Texas. Late at night after the local station closed down. ↗

— Joni Mitchell

#because #closed #down #german #get

This is a nation that has lost the ability to be self-critical, and that makes a lie out of the freedoms. ↗

— Joni Mitchell

#freedoms #lie #lost #makes #nation

We managed to put together a compilation that had some creativity to it. In the meantime I was listening to the free radio stations and I noticed that during their war coverage they were playing these songs born out of the Vietnam War that were all critical of the soldiers. ↗

— Joni Mitchell

#compilation #coverage #creativity #critical #during

When I came to California, it was the mecca of the world. Every young person on the planet wanted to be here. ↗

— Joni Mitchell

#came #every #here #i #i came