Sunlight will renew your pride. Joni Mitchell More Quotes by Joni Mitchell More Quotes From Joni Mitchell The bands and the roadies, love 'em and leave 'em. It's pleasure to try 'em, but trouble to keep 'em. Joni Mitchell rock-and-roll ems trying They used to laugh at me when I refused to ride on all those double decker buses, all because there was no driver on the top. Joni Mitchell dense used laughing Lazy reviewers look up other people's reviews and they write the same thing, so you get people writing crap based on crap. Joni Mitchell lazy writing people Rolling Stone hates me. They must have an editorial policy to do me in for many years. Joni Mitchell rolling hate years When the spirit of child's play enters into the creative process, it's a wonderful force and something to be nurtured. Joni Mitchell creativity children art You can give me 400,000 hostile people and I won't even break sweat. If you give me 200 adoring people, my mouth will dry out. Joni Mitchell sweat giving people I like my freedom. I like to do my own grocery shopping. Joni Mitchell grocery-shopping groceries shopping You snipe so steady, you snub so snide, so rip and ready to diminish and deride. Joni Mitchell ready rip poetry The land of litigation, the courts are like game shows. Take what's behind the curtain the jury cries. Joni Mitchell politics land games I never really wanted to be a star. I didn't like entering a room with all eyes on me. I still don't really like the attention of a birthday party. Joni Mitchell party stars eye Fibers in a variety of colors protrude out of my skin like mushrooms after a rainstorm. They cannot be forensically identified as animal, vegetable or mineral. Joni Mitchell color vegetables animal I hate show business. Joni Mitchell hate business shows I assume there must be some kind of genetic thrust. My two grandmothers were very different, but both of them were frustrated musicians. Joni Mitchell frustrated grandmother two The pirate he will sink you with a kiss, he'll steal your heart and sail away. Joni Mitchell kissing heart advice During times like these, the wise are influential. Joni Mitchell times-like-these politics wise Richard got married to a figure skater, and he bought her a dishwasher and a coffee percolator. Joni Mitchell married coffee profound I met a redneck on a Grecian isle who did the Goat Dance very well. Joni Mitchell redneck goats dancing I have lost my credibility as a hit maker because of these side excursions into other branches of music; by not being consistent. Consistency seems to be all-important. Joni Mitchell consistency branches important When I began experimenting, people weren't ready for it. Once it's in its second and third generational stages, people can accept it. Joni Mitchell stage accepting people Something's lost, but something's gained, in living everyday. Joni Mitchell adages everyday lost