Joni Mitchell quote: "I have an aversion to being mislabeled. Here's a label I'd accept: I'm an 'individual.' I'm someone who can't follow, and doesn't want to lead."

I come from pioneer stock, developers of the West, people who went out into the wilderness and set u...
JONI MITCHELL

The thing that gave me the most pain in life, psychologically, and it gave me tremendous pain psycho...
JONI MITCHELL

We managed to put together a compilation that had some creativity to it. In the meantime I was liste...
JONI MITCHELL

I see the entire world as Eden, and every time you take an inch of it away, you must do so with resp...
JONI MITCHELL

I heard someone from the music business saying they are no longer looking for talent, they want peop...
JONI MITCHELL

My style of songwriting is influenced by cinema. I'm a frustrated filmmaker. A fan once said to ...
JONI MITCHELL

I learned a woman is never an old woman.
JONI MITCHELL

We have a war dictator who was not elected, he snuck in. so he punishes people that threaten him in ...
JONI MITCHELL

My childhood was very difficult. I had every childhood disease and then some, but my parents didn...
JONI MITCHELL

I get the same charge from juxtaposition of colors as I do from juxtaposition of chords.
JONI MITCHELL

America is in a runaway-train position and dragging all the world with it. It's grotesquely ment...
JONI MITCHELL

I'm not a pitiable creature. It's just that I suffer very eloquently.
JONI MITCHELL

I sing my sorrow, and I paint my joy.
JONI MITCHELL

I thrive on change. That's probably why my chord changes are weird, because chords depict emotio...
JONI MITCHELL

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

My parents told me I'd point to a bed of flowers and say 'Pink. Pretty,' before I knew a...
JONI MITCHELL

I see music as fluid architecture.
JONI MITCHELL

You wake up one day and suddenly realize that your youth is behind you, even though you're still...
JONI MITCHELL

My heart is broken in the face of the stupidity of my species.
JONI MITCHELL

Buddy Holly and the early rock 'n' roll was no lighter than the way I play. It's very mi...
JONI MITCHELL

At the point where I'm trying to force something and it's not happening, and I'm getting...
JONI MITCHELL

There are things to confess that enrich the world, and things that need not be said.
JONI MITCHELL

Sorrow is easy to express and so hard to tell.
JONI MITCHELL

When I think of your kisses my mind see-saws.
JONI MITCHELL

There are things to confess that enrich the world, and things that need not be said.
JONI MITCHELL

I want to have fun. I want to shine like the sun. I want to be the one that you want to see. I want ...
JONI MITCHELL

You have this mounting aggressive ignorance with the rabbit's foot of their particular religion....
JONI MITCHELL

I used to be monastic, almost. Now I'm like a Tibetan that has discovered hamburgers and televis...
JONI MITCHELL

Sorrow is so easy to express and yet so hard to tell.
JONI MITCHELL

I don't understand why Europeans and South Americans can take more sophistication. Why is it tha...
JONI MITCHELL

When the world becomes a massive mess with nobody at the helm, it's time for artists to make the...
JONI MITCHELL

You could write a song about some kind of emotional problem you are having, but it would not be a go...
JONI MITCHELL

My family could only afford to get me the box of eight Crayola crayons, but I craved the one with al...
JONI MITCHELL

Augustine, Anne Sexton and Sylvia Plath are confessional writers and all three make me sick. I have ...
JONI MITCHELL

My individual, psychological descent coincided, ironically, with my ascent into the public eye.
JONI MITCHELL

I conceived in art college at the age of 20, near the end of term.
JONI MITCHELL

In terms of fiction, I'd rather go out and have a good time than read a book about someone havin...
JONI MITCHELL

Everyone I know has attention deficit, and they say it with great pride. It's a bad time to be r...
JONI MITCHELL

I loved Debussy, Stravinsky, Chopin, Tchaikovsky, anything with romantic melodies, especially the no...
JONI MITCHELL

All I really, really want our love to do is to bring out the best in me and in you too.
JONI MITCHELL

My goal as a writer is more to comfort than to disturb.
JONI MITCHELL

The God of the Old Testament is the depiction of evil.
JONI MITCHELL

Oh, the jealousy, the greed is the unraveling. It's the unraveling and it undoes all the joy that co...
JONI MITCHELL

I love you when I forget about me.
JONI MITCHELL

I think I would go further into fine arts, I think, if I were to continue.
JONI MITCHELL

My life came down to being a granny and watching a lot of television.
JONI MITCHELL

When I began experimenting, people weren't ready for it. Once it's in its second and third g...
JONI MITCHELL

Not to dismiss Gershwin, but Gershwin is the chip; Ellington was the block.
JONI MITCHELL

Ira Gershwin, shame on him. I mean, some of the writing.
JONI MITCHELL

I don't like to make fluffy little songs, but now I want to make some light songs.
JONI MITCHELL

I know my generation - a lot of them, they're getting old now, and they want to think back fondl...
JONI MITCHELL

Van Gogh was impulsive.
JONI MITCHELL

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

No one likes to have less than they had before. That's the nature of the human animal.
JONI MITCHELL

Don't it always seem to go, that you don't know what you've got till it's gone.
JONI MITCHELL

When I came to California, it was the mecca of the world. Every young person on the planet wanted to...
JONI MITCHELL

It's in my stars to invent; I was born on Madame Curie's birthday. I have this need for orig...
JONI MITCHELL

Fame is a series of misunderstandings surrounding a name.
JONI MITCHELL

White rhythm is waltzes, marches, and the polka. In Africa, rhythm is used for a celebratory groove,...
JONI MITCHELL

You're in my blood like holy wine, You taste so bitter and so sweet. I could drink a case of you dar...
JONI MITCHELL

I remember that time you told me, you said"Love is touching souls." Surely you touched mine 'Cause p...
JONI MITCHELL

Moons and Junes and Ferris wheels/ The dizzy dancing way you feel/ As every fairy tale comes real/ I...
JONI MITCHELL

Tears and fears and feeling proud to say 'I love you' right out loud.
JONI MITCHELL

And the seasons, they go round and round,/ And the painted ponies go up and down./ We're captive on ...
JONI MITCHELL

Say, won't you stay; we'll put on the day and we'll talk in present tenses
JONI MITCHELL

I've looked at life from both sides now From up and down, and still somehow It's life's illusions I ...
JONI MITCHELL

But you're bound to loseIf you let the blues get you scared to feel
JONI MITCHELL

You know, Neil Young is singing Rock n' roll will never die, and Neil never rocked and rolled in...
JONI MITCHELL

Do you see how you hurt me, baby? So I hurt you too. Then we both get so blue. I am on a lonely road...
JONI MITCHELL

I wanted to paint in a folk-artist-y way. My heroes were Van Gogh, Gauguin, Matisse, and Rembrandt. ...
JONI MITCHELL

I'm a night owl.
JONI MITCHELL

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

There was this mountain village in Russia where my music was getting in on some German radio station...
JONI MITCHELL

My name had gone stale, and no matter how progressive I got, it was my time to die.
JONI MITCHELL

All romantics meet the same fate some day.
Drunk and cynical and boring someone in some dark ca...
JONI MITCHELL

Growing up, I had only one good pair of shoes. So on rainy school days, my mom would slip plastic br...
JONI ERNST

It was only by luck and the blessings of God that my soldiers did not encounter an assault, that we ...
JONI ERNST

I think people who had helped me should really get the recognition.
JONI ANGER

I'm happy for everybody that's involved with this. It took me about two years.
JONI ANGER

They said they'd pass the information on and they'd have it cleaned up. I guess when I called the po...
JONI ANGER

I saw the bags and I said to myself that somebody is dumping trash here. Then I saw what was inside....
JONI ANGER

The push for 'Meatless Mondays' in our military is misguided at best and goes against dietar...
JONI ERNST

Those that have received care here in Des Moines at the VA center or the VA hospital here have said ...
JONI ERNST

Americans have been hurting, but when we demanded solutions, too often Washington responded with the...
JONI ERNST

As a young girl, I plowed the fields of our family farm. I worked construction with my dad. To save ...
JONI ERNST

I say scrap the IRS. Let's start all over again.
JONI ERNST

It's not enough to be a woman. You have to care about women's issues. And women's issues...
JONI ERNST

We don't charge a premium for perpendicular.
JONI CLARK

I grew up in southwest Iowa, on a farm north of Stanton, Iowa, which is a tiny little town, a farmin...
JONI ERNST

I can tell you that the Iowa way - the Iowa way is to find out that there is a problem and acknowled...
JONI ERNST

I'm glad that we have the ESA, because I think that's been good for the big-horned sheep and the gri...
JONI GRAY

I do believe that we need to lower taxes on our hard working Iowans immediately.
JONI ERNST

As much as anything, we often have referred to 'Selection Sunday,' and that has become very much a t...
JONI COMSTOCK

Let's shut down the EPA.
JONI ERNST

I believe that wholeheartedly - that we have to maintain a strong national defense.
JONI ERNST

I've been here for 13 years, and this is one of the most incredibly sad things I've seen.
JONI GEIGER

At first it will be business, then it will be other high-cost majors like nursing and engineering. W...
JONI FINNEY

In looking at Ohio State and Maryland, it was very, very close. Maryland was one of the teams the co...
JONI COMSTOCK

Sometimes God allows what he hates to accomplish what he loves.
JONI EARECKSON TADA

God is truly on the side of those who work for social justice, especially when we accompany that wor...
JONI EARECKSON TADA

If you truly believe in the value of life, you care about all of the weakest and most vulnerable mem...
JONI EARECKSON TADA

Perspective is everything when you are experiencing the challenges of life.
JONI EARECKSON TADA

In the Christian faith, God really puts suffering front and center. He doesn't get squeamish abo...
JONI EARECKSON TADA

Oh, my goodness, when you're a mother and you just give birth to a child with spina bifida and -...
JONI EARECKSON TADA

One problem I have with faith-healing is that it tends to be focused only on the physical aspect of ...
JONI EARECKSON TADA

My weakness, that is, my quadriplegia, is my greatest asset because it forces me into the arms of Ch...
JONI EARECKSON TADA

Like all good citizens, the elderly and people with disabilities want to eradicate waste and fraud f...
JONI EARECKSON TADA

Alzheimer's disease is never an 'accident' in a marriage. It falls under the purview of ...
JONI EARECKSON TADA

Well, painting is the one thing I do, that is just me. It's me and easels, and the pencils. And ...
JONI EARECKSON TADA

The hallmark of a healthy society has always been measured by how it cares for the disadvantaged.
JONI EARECKSON TADA

My life goal is to see the world's one billion people with disabilities embraced and encouraged ...
JONI EARECKSON TADA

Cancer is such a wake-up call to remind us how high the cosmic stakes really are and how short and b...
JONI EARECKSON TADA

I have an interesting perspective on depending on others. I think it gives people a chance to serve....
JONI EARECKSON TADA

Probably, I thought, my suffering and training is a lifelong process. It will end only when I go to ...
JONI EARECKSON TADA

Here in the sub-Sahara, it seemed that the weaker people were, the harder they had to lean on God - ...
JONI EARECKSON TADA

True wisdom is found in trusting God when you can't figure things out.
JONI EARECKSON TADA

I'd learned that you can't wear a crown unless you bear a cross - that if our Savior had learned obe...
JONI EARECKSON TADA

We rant and rave against God for the evil we have to endure but hardly blink at the evil in our own ...
JONI EARECKSON TADA

Anyone who takes the Bible seriously agrees that God hates suffering. Jesus spent most of his time r...
JONI EARECKSON TADA

Suffering provides the gym equipment on which my faith can be exercised.
JONI EARECKSON TADA

Jesus went without comfort so that you might have it. He postponed joy so that you might share in it...
JONI EARECKSON TADA

Maybe the truly handicapped people are the ones that don't need God as much.
JONI EARECKSON TADA

I wished God were like He used to be, a few notches lower. I wanted Him to be lofty enough to help m...
JONI EARECKSON TADA

Referencing 2 Corinthians 4:6, Robert Hewitt compares jars of clay in the first century to the same ...
JONI EARECKSON TADA

There is nothing that moves a loving father's soul quite like his child's cry.
JONI EARECKSON TADA

You better be very convinced, very sure, before you pull your plug or someone else's plug, that ...
JONI EARECKSON TADA

The Bible is replete with commands to persevere, especially in the face of injustice.
JONI EARECKSON TADA

True wisdom is found ins trusting God when you can't figure things out.
JONI EARECKSON TADA

Joni discovered the best way to put the halter on her horse without being animal resisting and fleei...
JONI EARECKSON TADA

The more righteous God appeared, the more resentful I became.
JONI EARECKSON TADA

If churches around the world would grasp the revolutionary truth that Christ's transforming powe...
JONI EARECKSON TADA

The Southern character is opposed to haste. Safety is of more worth than speed, and there is no hurr...
MARIA MITCHELL

After that, I was offered lots of lesbian roles, but I didn't want them because I'd already ...
RADHA MITCHELL

I do, too, most recently while I was singing karaoke in some weird bar.
RADHA MITCHELL

I'm not working now, so I'm sort of facing the unknown.
RADHA MITCHELL

So I was in America and I thought I'll stick around while I'm here and just see what happens...
RADHA MITCHELL

I didn't even understand the whole idea of Hollywood.
RADHA MITCHELL

New York in a way functions as another character within the story, as it does within most of Woody A...
RADHA MITCHELL

I mean normally you have your agent call the other agent and all the agents talk and then finally yo...
RADHA MITCHELL

I don't smoke and I don't drink alcohol.
RADHA MITCHELL

But I'm also a vegetarian so there's another factor I guess.
RADHA MITCHELL

I do Yoga. I'd like to say I do it every morning, but I don't, I just don't have the tim...
RADHA MITCHELL

Yeah I think Pitch Black was edgy, I think that's what worked for our film.
RADHA MITCHELL

As much as most of the actors were kind of curious to know what their character meant in relation to...
RADHA MITCHELL

Because in Australia there really isn't a lot to do. There aren't a lot of opportunities.
RADHA MITCHELL

It was kind of scary because working with Woody Allen becomes sort of a big deal in your mind. He di...
RADHA MITCHELL

I just don't talk about who I'm going out with, that's it. It's an odd thing to sit ...
RADHA MITCHELL

I think part of that is to create an environment where it's like real life, where you don't ...
RADHA MITCHELL

Well, obviously I was excited by the idea that Woody Allen was going to direct it. But at the same t...
RADHA MITCHELL

I think in this, definitely, because you are feeling how it felt to live in a completely different t...
RADHA MITCHELL

Life is neither comedy or tragedy, life is what you make of it.
RADHA MITCHELL

I want to be a blonde vampire. Catherine Deneuve was a blonde vampire, and she was my favourite vamp...
RADHA MITCHELL

This city can be kind of brutal, so you see your dreams from every different angle, but ultimately i...
RADHA MITCHELL

I had a friend, and we always used to pretend to be twins. We had this fantasy about going to Hollyw...
RADHA MITCHELL

Revenge is a way of life and definitely some thing that we identify with. We all feel cheated in som...
RADHA MITCHELL

We've become much more casual and much more relaxed in social interactions, where there was a fo...
RADHA MITCHELL

So wearing a corset certainly changes your state of mind.
RADHA MITCHELL

False modesty can be worse than arrogance.
DAVID MITCHELL

In case of doubt, do a little more than you have to.
WARREN MITCHELL

I enjoy being Jewish, but I'm an atheist... I hate fundamentalism in all its forms. Jews, Cathol...
WARREN MITCHELL

I knew that I did not have to buy into society's notion that I had to be handsome and healthy to...
WARREN MITCHELL

I want to stop piling people into prisons and stop branding people with a felony for a personal weak...
VICTOR MITCHELL

There is no reason why any public school district in our state should be on a four-day school week. ...
VICTOR MITCHELL

I would consider myself conservative but sensible and pragmatic.
VICTOR MITCHELL

My son's a West Point cadet.
VICTOR MITCHELL

We are very committed to putting forward a really bold message for the state of Colorado.
VICTOR MITCHELL

I had a 100 percent voting record with the NRA, but I don't believe in bazookas in our schools.
VICTOR MITCHELL

I don't think that attorneys should be in any way running for governor.
VICTOR MITCHELL

We've got to stop pandering and start leading.
VICTOR MITCHELL

The voters of Colorado deserve honest, straight-talking elected officials.
VICTOR MITCHELL

My wife and I have very deep roots in Colorado, and we can't see ourselves living anywhere else.
VICTOR MITCHELL

I started working at age thirteen. I'm a product of public schools, I'm a product of a publi...
VICTOR MITCHELL

My mother has a tremendous amount of pride and self-respect. She won't take assistance from anyb...
VICTOR MITCHELL

I lived in New York until I was eleven years old, when my mother left my two older sisters and my fa...
VICTOR MITCHELL

We do care about control and privacy. It's one of the reasons we are so focused on having our sy...
MITCHELL BAKER

Media and technology are our greatest assets. And yet, they are our most undervalued and underused a...
PAT MITCHELL

I spend a lot of time on college campuses, a lot of time mentoring young women in all sectors of bus...
PAT MITCHELL

TED Women isn't championing a cause; it's surfacing and sharing some of the most important i...
PAT MITCHELL

I think journalists and filmmakers are keen observers. And actors must also be sharp observers as th...
PAT MITCHELL

Investing in women and girls may once have been considered a radical notion or even a waste of resou...
PAT MITCHELL

TED Women will focus on the ideas and innovations championed by women and girls. These cover everyth...
PAT MITCHELL

I'll never turn down a red velvet cupcake.
SHAY MITCHELL

I'm trying hard to keep my Australian accent. My mom would disown me if I didn't.
MAIA MITCHELL

If I were to explore music, I'd want to just focus on that and make that my priority.
MAIA MITCHELL

I play guitar and write music, and that's definitely a huge part of my life, but it's my per...
MAIA MITCHELL

It's fun to play dress up for work, but when you have those off-days, it's nice to just be l...
MAIA MITCHELL

If I'm in work mode and going to meetings, I'll make an effort and dress up, but when I'...
MAIA MITCHELL

Life's under no obligation to give us what we expect. We take what we get and are thankful it's no w...
MARGARET MITCHELL

It was better to know the worst than to wonder.
MARGARET MITCHELL

My dear, I don't give a damn.
MARGARET MITCHELL

Well, my dear, take heart. Some day, I will kiss you and you will like it. But not now, so I beg you...
MARGARET MITCHELL

Burdens are for shoulders strong enough to carry them.
MARGARET MITCHELL

No actor has made a career of exerting determination to the extent that Matt Damon has. In the '...
ELVIS MITCHELL

I had studied at Harvard and MIT astronomy and a lot about the heavens and the star system and so fo...
EDGAR MITCHELL

We do need different types of propulsion to get to Mars. I wrote one of the first Ph.D. theses on th...
EDGAR MITCHELL

At the end of October 4 in 1957, when I was coming back from sea duty in the South Pacific, Sputnik ...
EDGAR MITCHELL

Our mission on Apollo 14 was to be the first to do science on the moon, so we had to be careful abou...
EDGAR MITCHELL

My wife tells me I am a male chauvinist pig and I have to sort of admit it. In my office and in my h...
EDGAR MITCHELL

We need a community of nations capable of space flight because we all have to be off this planet som...
EDGAR MITCHELL

I theorize that there is a spectrum of consciousness available to human beings. At one end is materi...
EDGAR MITCHELL

I have an aversion to being mislabeled. Here's a label I'd accept: I'm an 'individual.' I'm someone who can't follow, and doesn't want to lead.

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I have an aversion to being mislabeled. Here's a label I'd accept: I'm an 'individual.' I'm someone who can't follow, and doesn't want to lead.

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