#ed

If I'm censoring for anyone, it's for my parents. They are very old-fashioned and moral people. They still don't understand me that well. ↗

— Joni Mitchell

#censoring #i #me #moral #old-fashioned

Paul Simon started piling up a lot of words, more than the bar could handle, and I stopped! ↗

— Joni Mitchell

#could #handle #i #lot #more

People used to say nobody can sing my songs but me - they're too personal. ↗

— Joni Mitchell

#nobody #people #personal #say #sing

The Beginning of Survival is my best album. I am very proud of it, and I am surprised at it, too. I thought some of Travelogue was a little heavy, but I don't think this is heavy. ↗

— Joni Mitchell

#am #beginning #best #heavy #i

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

What I do is unusual: chordal movements that have never been used before, changing keys and modalities mid-song. ↗

— Joni Mitchell

#before #changing #i #i do #keys

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

When you're trying to pass on the best of the stuff you're culling to what should be a hungry culture but you have it diminished... that's kind of disappointing. ↗

— Joni Mitchell

#culture #diminished #disappointing #hungry #kind