Top 15 Joni Mitchell Quotes

It's coming on Christmas,
They're cutting down trees.
They're putting up reindeer
And singing songs of joy and peace.
I wish I had a river
I could skate away on

Friends have told her "Not so proud"
Neighbors trying to sleep are yelling "Not so loud"
Lovers in anger, "Block of ice"
Harder and harder just to be nice.

Laughing and crying, you know it's the same release.

Some are friendly
Some are cutting
Some are watching it from the wings
Some are standing in the centre giving to get something.

Secrets and sharing soda, That's how our time began. Love is a story told to a friend It's second hand.

I wanna be strong, I wanna laugh along, I wanna belong to the living. Alive, alive, I wanna get up and jive, Wanna wreck my stockings in some jukebox dive.

I remember the time you told me, you said "Love is touching souls," Surely you've touched mine, cause Part of you pours out of me In these lines from time to time.

Hey farmer, farmer, Put away that DDT now Give me spots on my apples But leave me the birds and the bees Please!

They took all the trees And put them in a tree museum And they charged all the people A dollar and a half just to see 'em.

Don't it always seem to go That you don't know what you've got Till it's gone. They paved paradise, And put up a parking lot.

They paved paradise And put up a parking lot With a pink hotel, a boutique and a swinging hot spot.

By the time we got to Woodstock We were half a million strong And everywhere there was song and celebration. And I dreamed I saw the bombers Riding shotgun in the sky And they were turning into butterflies Above our nation.

We are stardust, We are golden, And we’ve got to get ourselves Back to the garden.

I don't know who I am / but you know, life is for learning.

I came upon a child of god, He was walking along the road And I asked him, where are you going And this he told me: "I’m going on down to Yasgur’s farm I’m going to join in a rock ’n’ roll band I’m going to camp out on the land, I’m going to try an’ get my soul free.