Joni Mitchell (Roberta Joan Mitchell) Quotes

I paint my joy and I sing my sorrow.

Joni Mitchell

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• Sorrow
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• Paint

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• I would be pleased if someone would invent a pill to remove my impatience, moodiness, and occasional bursts of anger. But if they did, I wouldn't be able to write my novels or paint.

  

  Orhan Pamuk
  • Anger
  • Paint
  • Someone

• I love being a mom. But there's a certain kind of tedium to your life when your kid is young. Writing allows you to wander when your kid is napping in a crib ten feet away. So that's the great joy of writing fiction for me.

  

  Gayle Forman
  • Life
  • Kind
  • Mom

• A lot of people seem to feel that joy is only the most intense version of pleasure, arrived at by the same road - you simply have to go a little further down the track. That has not been my experience.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • People
  • Experience
  • Joy

• I dance. A lot. I work grief and sadness out of my body when I dance, and I bring in joy and rhythm.

  

  Inga Muscio
  • Work
  • Joy
  • Dance

• It took me four years to paint like Raphael, but a lifetime to paint like a child.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Me
  • Child
  • Paint

• Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible - it cannot be seen or measured, yet it is powerful enough to transform you in a moment, and offer you more joy than any material possession could.

  

  Barbara De Angelis
  • Love
  • Joy
  • Force

• Praised be the fathomless universeFor life and joy and for objects and knowledge curious;And for love, sweet love-But praise! O praise and praiseFor the sure-enwinding arms of cool-enfolding Death.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Life
  • Death
  • Knowledge

• And as, in ethics, Evil is a consequence of Good, so, in fact, out of Joy is sorrow born. Either the memory of past bliss is the anguish of to-day, or the agonies which are, have their origin in the ecstasies which might have been.

  

  Edgar Allan Poe
  • Good
  • Past
  • Joy

• Who is the happiest of men? He who values the merits of others, And in their pleasure takes joy, even as though 'twere his own. Not in the morning alone, not only at mid-day he charmeth; Even at setting, the sun is still the same glorious planet.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Men
  • Alone
  • Joy

• It's always great to see young swimmers and their excitement and the joy that they have in the water.

  

  Katie Ledecky
  • Great
  • Water
  • Joy

• I'm always just looking to get back to the joy of playing music, and keeping it simple, as much as I can.

  

  Chris Stapleton
  • Music
  • Simple
  • Joy

• It doesn't matter how your child comes to you. I've never felt such joy and such love. It's the most beautiful delicious little thing.

  

  Didi Conn
  • Beautiful
  • Joy

• There's a certain amount of joy in playing a character in the moment and not knowing what's going to roll out as it goes on. It's a bit like life, in a way.

  

  Liam Cunningham
  • Life
  • Character
  • Joy

• Christmas is joy, religious joy, an inner joy of light and peace.

  

  Pope Francis
  • Light
  • Peace
  • Joy

• We've become so accustomed to teaching to the tests that we've forgotten about a child's joy of discovery.

  

  Elizabeth Esty
  • Joy

• It's the great mystery of human life that old grief passes gradually into quiet tender joy.

  

  Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • Life
  • Great
  • Joy

• Even though we sometimes would not get a thing, we were happy with the joy the day would bring.

  

  Stevie Wonder
  • Happy
  • Day
  • Joy

• There is no joy in the soul that has forgotten what God prizes.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • God
  • Soul
  • Joy

• Allow yourself to experience fully every step of the journey, both the joy and the pain. You're alive. Greet the moment at hand with a grateful heart.

  

  Eleanor Brown
  • Heart
  • Experience
  • Pain

• You really do learn every day with every dog; they are all so unique and different. But if you're patient and you understand where they're coming from, and if you are consistent, they will be fine. They teach you to give your full attention.

  

  Emmylou Harris
  • Different
  • Attention
  • Dog

• I often say that sociology is a martial art, a means of self-defense. Basically, you use it to defend yourself, without having the right to use it for unfair attacks.

  

  Pierre Bourdieu
  • Art

• A fruit is not afraid of its own weight. It grows into its skin fully. It is whole, each part of its body equally alive.

  

  Gayle Brandeis
  • Part
  • Weight
  • Fruit

• I would like to explode, flow, crumble into dust, and my disintegration would be my masterpiece.

  

  Emil Cioran
  • Dust
  • Masterpiece
  • Disintegration

• I paint my joy and I sing my sorrow.

  

  Joni Mitchell
  • Joy
  • Sorrow
  • Sing