Joni Mitchell - Grammy Awards (1996)

Joni backstage at the 1996 Grammy Awards in Feb/1996 in LA.

[@jimmie200]

She is in a league, I think, these reporters will never understand.

[@djm55]

Wow she looks amazing at 53 here. So glad she's still with us after suffering a terrible stroke.

[@mooglen5948]

What a genius! Even the way she speaks in stanzas and with such quick wit is something I wish I could master. Poetry in conversation is such an art. Only Joni.

[@redskyatnight123]

Fuckin hell she's literally talking

[@douggrieco5329]

Voice sent from heaven Heard her live 3 times Unforgettable

[@carolhewett3756]

Lucky lucky you.

[@JPGR-bh8pl]

Wow! You are so lucky.

[@petemavus2948]

@@JPGR-bh8pl I'm so happy for you...I wish I could have

[@mellow5123]

Both times I went to see her, once she didn't show up, other time she played one song and left. Sigh.

[@edwardharley9]

Not just a great artist, musician and poet, but a brilliant intellectual......

[@9thedreaming9]

"No", and then she just walks away. She'd never put up with any bullshit. There is no other artist that I love and respect as much as Joni.

[@themaggattack]

Juan Bertini I couldn't hear the question she said no to. I kinda wonder what it was.

[@John-sl5wo]

@@themaggattack kinda iconic we couldnt hear it either. she just says no and walks away with two grammys

[@DENIEL381]

AMAZING LADY ,MY ONLY WISH WAS THAT SHE WOULD OF GAVE UP SMOKING.....

[@lazurm]

I think you misinterpreted her emotions upon answering "no". Note, she did so with a smile. I think she just wanted to end the conference and that's how to do it sometimes.

[@willhammond5265]

I'm a singer and songwriter in Nashville for 45 years, and I just love, love, love Joni. Whenever I'm feeling a little down, I listen to Joni sing "Help Me" and other favorites of mine and somehow, I always seem to feel a little better. In the dictionary beside the word "cool", there should be a picture of Joni. I would consider it the honor of my life if I could spend just 5 minutes with her and tell her how much I love and admire her..... then give her a big hug. I do hope she knows how many millions of people love her.

[@willshaw6405]

If I create one TENTH of the love and happiness and the beauty that Joni created, I will consider my life well spent.

[@celtglen]

Can you imagine painting WITH Joni Mitchell 😲😲😲

[@johngraydon506]

Holly G i’d hold anything for her but her pallete was amazing and Iam still really in love with her as her music and performance takes you away !

[@richardhornbostel3958]

I read that Miles Davis wanted to sit and talk painting with her but he wouldn’t talk music with her. He had all of her albums though

[@jeanniecampbell1374]

I love Joni she deserves true respect for her creativity ..taught me so much through my life .

[@timetravlr625]

Even The words she speaks in her interview sounds like the lyrics to a cool new song!

[@lastnamefirst4035]

I like how she mentions domestic battery & women and she talks about it twice.The reporters of course werent intrested in that

[@natgirl326]

They slept through those lines.If they read between them and paid attention,they would realize that she herself was a battered woman.. Bless you Joni.He didn’t deserve to know you..

[@jpd464]

So in touch with herself and life I just revere her.

[@adaptivelogic1354]

I am a singer/songwriter - Joni is the reason I sing, the reason I play music, the reason I write music Thank you Joni - I will love you forever XXX

[@autumnmeadows4079]

She is a magnificent person

[@DaRkHoRsE-_-]

Amazing intelligent warm kind...beautiful...to good for our world...love you JOnI

[@lunnouxhinds8464]

This woman is a Legend. The Queen of folk music. Love her. The album Smile is Fantastic from start to finish and she won a Grammy for this album.

[@missmyasia]

One of my heros...I love Joni!

[@rmac1042]

A true genius! And I just love to hear her converse; such wit, such candor, such empathy with other artists! I sooo hope she is getting better!

[@johnvalentine3456]

She has a type of Saskatchewan accent that you don't hear up there as much anymore, unless it's someone of Joni's vintage. I love the sound and cadence of it, but have noticed when visiting it that is heard less and less as the years have passed.

[@peggylamb552]

Joni is hella humble, as well - that makes Joni even more mezmerizing, and an observance of Joni not being of this brutally sad world - that is just it, i believe Joni was Divinely place in our lifetime here AND how insanely fortunate we are for that issue !!

[@sh230968]

Love her and you can be proud of yourself every day. Not a loose comment in her moment of rejoice. So genuine and so true to herself. On top of her creativity, intelligence, originality, and expression Joni Mitchell is humble to an extremely decent degree.

[@TheHeartOne]

Love, love, love Joni Mitchell!!! FOR YEARS!!! Blessings, Joni!

[@susancham6025]

Watching in 2020 LOVE JOANIE 😍

[@susanlee6462]

God bless you Joni we love you

[@lilredscout]

Genius. I remember seeing this live at a party. I was so stoked for her.

[@nadominhoca]

"I just don't want to beling to a gender club"... What an intelligent person!

[@theslo777ery]

Joni's music is on another level. Listening to her music creates movies in my mind. I can feel her happiness, pain and regrets. She helps humans cope with being humans. Shes made my life better somehow.

[@debbieschmidling8158]

❤❤

[@youkyouk7471]

She is so Bright ! Vivent les Femmes !

[@joesmith-ok8ip]

Joni has it, she is so cool

[@raedgaj3878]

Viva Joni, all her works have a story to tell, & all her music is a work of art. Love you Joni.

[@tanyalowe7150]

Joni you astonishing person, always fascinating LOVE U

[@wendileona]

The guitar and 'brain' she spoke of I believe was the combination of the Parker Fly and a Roland Virtual Guitar guitar processor thing, I forget the model, but if you research the Roland VR guitar series products of that time, you'll probably find it. I'm sure Joni super fans know the details. Her description of how great art (I'm sure includes music) embodies masculine and feminine aesthetics at 3:25 is just marvelous, yet said so straight forward. Sometimes you discover something that just opens a door inside you. Totally happened to me listening to that in this footage. .::Gary

[@Westlake72]

Love her to bits - she is the greatest!

[@mayemcdonald9111]

Joni is my most favourite lady artist of all time. I have so much appreciation and respect for the way she has lived an authentic life. She stayed true to herself. She listened to her inner voice and did what was best for her. There was likely some pain and sorrows however we all know that art is inspired by love and pain. If I could, I would take care of her. God Bless Joni. ❤️

[@Westlake72]

The word female is both superfluous and insulting.

[@fibboobbif]

Thats what i call a strong woman... she doesnt let those Idiots put her in a feminist underdog victim drawer.

[@sweetjane5033]

crop rotation!!!❤❤she’s a special creative artist! She changed my life!❤

[@Dayglodaydreams]

She's still beautiful. Also a great composer and song-writer, and singer.

[@k.h.4698]

You can just imagine as she walked off stage, she probably thought to herself, What stupid reporters….which then meant she would wait even longer before speaking in public. Her message went way over these pseudo-reporters heads. You just can’t ask Joni the typical questions that most Billboard self-divas eat up. Result with Joni: higher plateau in talent and intellect, not surpassed yet.

[@sidessherri]

So terribly intelligent💪🏼

[@pattisteely4650]

Joni is the best. Love to hear her feelings

[@fernandofresi8842]

Fantastic!

[@finddeniro]

Humble and Sincere.. Yes..the audience Likes and Loves..

[@davidhigginbotham5451]

Her fingers tell the whole story...……. yep

[@laflammesuzanne4124]

love you

[@suzanne.laflamme4740]

Still❤❤❤

[@pamhunter-to4xs]

She's the most intelligent person I've ever seen. 🇨🇦🇨🇦 So proud!! She doesn't take any crap.... especially from stupid people!

[@DETROIT1948]

Brilliant! Priceless ✨✨✨

[@judypage443]

Love her🎹♥️🌹🦋🎵🎶🎼

[@DMateo2524]

Well deserved, Joni. ❤

[@ecstaticist]

The level of thought here. Wow. I had trouble following. Had to listen twice.

[@tilaman3]

Joni a proud Canadian🇨🇦🇨🇦 Oh Canada.

[@harlieray-wallick9343]

the best...

[@harlieray-wallick9343]

STILL the best storyteller!

[@dave_goldcrest]

An actual musician meets the modern music industry. It's a bizarre encounter. She made such great music for many years and for some reason they just caught up with her. But as she said the music industry today is not really about music, it's about selling an image, it's ephemeral.

[@cagdeorok]

Intelligent. Articulate.

[@mjm5081]

❤

[@jamesbadham9665]

Unbelievable that she had never been previously nominated. Hejira, no? Unreal. Blue? Maybe I heard her wrong, but she was indeed nominated for many Grammies and won a bunch, but maybe not for an album?

[@SwimmerPrince]

Joni had won few Grammys before this and nominated many times including Album of the Year. however she was speaking in context that so many great albums (like hers) deserved to win and didn't get nominated

[@massif_]

Joni Mitchell is bigger than a grammy

[@danielmesery2904]

🌷🌟

[@Neptunian65]

I so get her when she said I dont like to think that way. Joni is a free spirit and they ask her about political nonsense

[@skippy9659]

She nailed it. And we re still dealing w the same male female ratio crap. Play more women on the radio.

[@toneman335]

These clowns ask such moronic questions!

[@lazurm]

The only moronic question is the one that you don't ask.

[@rodywithers3536]

lazurm that answer sounds like an easily refuted cliche. The world is over-ridden with moronic questions. Even Joni was getting impatient.

[@lazurm]

@@rodywithers3536 I realize that most of us get impatient with certain kinds of questions, usually ones that either come from a place that misses the point or one that is so heavily based on ignorance, the kind that we've always assumed wouldn't display itself at a certain point in life, that the question may hit us with sudden surprise bordering on shock. I know this. My point, though, is based on the fact that at the very least, most of these kinds of questions display an interest in the subject, a curiosity that is always welcome. More, we are born ignorant and therefore all of us were at some point in our lives where we don't know a subject. I don't think that anyone should be discouraged from asking questions because, from the standpoint of humility, we've all been there at some time in our lives and empathy is far better than arrogance. Keeping it simple, people shouldn't feel inhibited from asking questions that they honestly want the answer to. Learning is usually a good thing.

[@lovesilk1]

'My dear ex-husband - to be" . . . have to be pretty centered to do that.

[@lisamcmahon1462]

Sounds like the press is harassing her. She handles it like the genius she is.

[@34hedgehog]

Stupid, stupid questions...

[@ramonmoreno8014]

She even had time to shut down idpol

[@gordygibson8776]

Listen to her music instead of this nonsense.

[@twinkletoes22221]

Soooo you made music to win an award WTF??? Oh are you also perhaps in league with Belzibub?