Joni Mitchell Midday Interview with Peter Downey

October 30, 1985
After living in the U.S. for so long, parts of Canada seem foreign to Mitchell - but Saskatchewan always feels like home.

[@MimiYouyu]

Wonderful honesty. You will never hear any popular female so called Artists speak in such depths, of self awareness and connection to everything. Only buy real Art. Raise the bar back to real Art, and keep it there.

[@sablemountain]

"like a salmon swimming up-stream"... you know you are home.... wonderful image.

[@davidhigginbotham5451]

Everything she says is a metaphore… she talks like she composes.

[@DetoxGreen]

They were doing virtual interviews in 1986… wow

[@davidmayhew4818]

Such an interesting sensibility. The anger is unfortunate though. But the path she chose. She had so many good reasons to be happy.

[@d.dedrick7991]

Sometimes the anger chooses you, in that it can, unfortunately, be how a person's psyche & physiology reacts to stress, sadness & frustration, etc. It is how one is wired, and life's experiences, traumas & disappointments, of course, greatly effect an individual's moods and outlook in unique & varied ways. It's hard to explain to people who are happy- go- lucky, glass- half- full types by nature. There can be little doubt that Joni Mitchell wouldn't have become the great artist she did, had she been easy going & easily satisfied. However, being so driven and mercurial, as she clearly is, after all the years, along with natural aging, understandably, it probably has just really worn her down & out...

[@Zepster77]

She was angry then perhaps from seeing so much stupidity greed & injustice in the world

[@janeybusiness6601]

I too am an angry poet. I am not a King's Poet & neither was Joni.

[@janeybusiness6601]

@@d.dedrick7991 I think this interview was in 1982 or 83, when Joni was touring Wild Things Run Fast & was in her 40s. This was Joni Mitchell at her juiciest. She didn't start to look her age until she was in her 60s.

[@dididylan-pena6597]

Definitivamente para tener un sentido crítico y expresarlo a través del Arte, necesitas profundidad.

[@SkeeterNYC]

This is such a great clip. Thank you! Is there more?

[@florbernales]

BEautiful Joni

[@dididylan-pena6597]

Contrasta con una entrevista en blanco y negro que le hacen en sus 20's, en donde le acusan de ser "demasiado feliz" en sus composiciones, y donde ella se jacta de que le gusta hacer "música bonita y alegre"🙄

[@carcar97]

looking like Brian Eno hahaha

[@stevenwhite8936]

can she tell a story or what ?

[@justinherbert9146]

I wish Joni never smoked.

[@942NorthStreet]

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[@Coomberg]

I wish she would get rid of the bloody cigarettes

[@classicmusicarchives7370]

Everyone has a flaw or a vice or a weakness, and that is hers........

[@tuskedbeast]

She has (finally).

[@yodservant]

The nicotine in the tobacco probably kept her grounded with that mercurial genius mind of hers, but they did eventually take their toll on her health and beauty and voice ... Rachmaninoff was the same way, always with the cigarette in hand

[@davidhigginbotham5451]

by the way, Joni...They're called Threshing machines..not THRASHING machines.

[@malcolmwatt4866]

Not if you're from Saskatchewan of her times. Thrashing Machine is entirely correct. I love that she uses that pronunciation. By the time I grew up things had become Combines.

[@lisamoroney3036]

Who is she married to?

[@rileysummers484]

At that time it would have been Larry Klein, who played bass on all of the , post Jaco albums with the exception of Both Sides Now (orchestral); They divorced after the release of her double Grammy winning album Turbulent Indigo, he continued to play bass on her projects up to the completion of Shine her 19th and presumably last studio album.

[@windy-seventies]

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