I think everything Joni Mitchell did for music was big.
Quotes about joni (11 Quotes)
I would make tea for Joni Mitchell or clean her car, anything to be in the studio and watch her work.
We need Joni to not get so shook up over what goes wrong, but focus on what went right.
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.
Also a songwriter (and guitarist), she's working on a solo CD. It's kind of up in the air, ... I'm having a hard time I want to make it special. Musical theatre is my first love. My writing is sort of folk-rock. I get compared to Tori Amos and Joni Mitchell though I'm not nearly as talented as either. Neither a straight-pop album nor a musical-theatre album seems the way to go. I want to take my music and orchestrate it in a kind of old fashioned style, and take some standards and 'popularize' them do a true crossover. I'm working on it.
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.
I married a musician, music is everywhere I turn, thankfully. Yeah, a lot of times the ideas for a movie, or even the way I cast a movie, comes from driving around in my car and listening to tapes and thinking, 'Kate Hudson floating on a Joni Mitchell song.' That's a good scene.
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.
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!
He was really good with Joni and still is. Me too. I mean hes been (in the U.S.) for 10 years or something. He knows a lot of stuff and he was always willing to help us if we needed anything. Its really good.
I'm elated about becoming part of Elektra again. In 1970, Elektra was the first record company I ever visited. I was just a kid from Cleveland, but I idolized Elektra bands like the Doors, Love, Joni Mitchell and all the others. ... The Cars signed with Elektra in 1978, so I feel like I'm coming full circle.