Joni Mitchell - The New Music Interview (1994)

[@OrdinaryWatchGuy]

Incredible lady. The terms 'genius' and 'legend' are scattered around so liberally today. This lady is a genius and a legend. The real thing.

[@jeffmoore9487]

Just watching her talk there in the museum, she's dashing through ideas. It might be hard to be her. Her music makes me cry, not because I'm sad, but just cuz I don't how to respond to something really beautiful that seems out of my understanding. She says something about art should be a window into something you didn't know was in you, or something like that. Her music does exactly that. Obviously, I'm not alone.

[@edwardharley9]

I say this all the time... she is a brilliant artist, musician, and lyricist....however what we tend to forget she is certainly one of the most intelligent, brilliant minds of contemporary life. She has inspired my art more than anyone I know... Just LOVE her....

[@janicejohnson6438]

And yet she is so down to earth.

[@donthomcsi]

This is the best interview I've ever seen of her. Joni's expression is flowing wonderfully.

[@interstategar]

Very rare, and great talent. If a generation is lucky, you see such a great artist. Good luck nowadays. We need more people with true wisdom these days.

[@robertgillespie7946]

I was fortunate enough to attend a silent auction and win the signed and numbered lithograph by Joni Mitchell. The proceeds benefited the public radio station at Wayne State University in Detroit. It's the self portrait from the cover of Turbulent Indigo. It's hanging over my piano and I look at it every day thinking how lucky I am to have it.

[@janicejohnson6438]

Lucky indeed.

[@debbieschmidling8158]

That’s so awesome!

[@TylerMusicBoi]

The comment she made about her being undervalued is very true. To a lot of people, she comes off as pretentious because of statements like that. When in actuality, she is absolutely correct. If you look at the influence that Joni has had on the music industry, not just in rock music but also in other genres of music such as jazz, pop, R&B, soul, etc., it's clear, she's perhaps one of the greatest musicians of the 20th century. Yet she's often slumped into that folk revival/female singer-songwriter thing and most people look past anything of her's that isn't Blue and it is so unfair. She is more than a folk singer, more than a "female artist", she's a musician and composer at the core. She really is in the realm of Leonard Cohen and Bob Dylan and doesn't get near as much recognition as they do. And she is criminally underrated in that regard.

[@CadeCYC]

Tyler Talks! TRUTH. I am exploring Joni like I had initiated an exciting new novel that only gets deeper and more beautiful as I explore its art.

[@TylerMusicBoi]

Josh O It feels so exciting to dig into her discography, doesn’t it? She has so many classic albums, it’s incredible!!

[@shelbynicholson9762]

"To a lot of people she comes off as pretentious...." There's no need to apologize for fools. Don't give them that much credit. She's like Ruth Bader Ginsberg, an exceptional lady, a fine thinker, one in a million, uncommon, a tough act to follow. Neither have any peer....

[@UltimateAwe]

THANK YOU. JONI IS A LEGENDARY ARTIST IF THERE EVER WAS ONE. I ENJOY HER SO.

[@sunnyrolfs]

Wow you can tell Joni doesn’t hate this interviewer

[@tuskedbeast]

The low number of views here is sad. Joni is, unquestionably like she said, in the big three with Dylan and Leonard. With their synthesized arrangements, I do believe she stumbled crafting her post-Mingus albums. When you hear those later songs stripped to their essence, they're timeless.

[@carmenrizzo6408]

What ?

[@savedfaves]

An unparalleled insight as always. If you asked me people growing up these days are starved for meaning in music. Most musical "artists" these days lack substance because their music; their art, lacks true meaning.

[@bottanoog9545]

at 8:17 her explanation of her piano playing is almost religious...just pure genius....

[@shelbynicholson9762]

Her perceptions are so sharp.

[@dsjump]

"Art is an axe for a frozen sea." I believe she's read Kafka.

[@leapsplashafrog]

Clearly at home In the art if I may I'd lump her in with Young, Springsteen and Dylan. I adore them all thank you so much for what you do Joni

[@pgianola]

I agree Young and Springsteen share the same category, although on the next lower rung than that of Mitchell, Cohen, and Dylan. Cheers!

[@sweetjane5033]

love this song Turbulent Indigo! Joni send me a tin ear!❤

[@ironflazambat5815]

Though she may sometimes come across as bitter in certain interviews, I really respect her honesty. She puts a lot of artists in their place, and she has a lot of insightful opinions to share, and when a lot of these truths are brushed off as bitterness of course you will become more defensive. I don’t remember where, but she spoke in one interview on how she believed that we are essentially alone and will be all our lives, and that once someone begins to accept this things become much easier. Definitely not an easy pill to swallow, and I’m sure she expressed it in a much more intelligent way than I am right now, but all of this is to say that she has a true wisdom that has guided me, and that wisdom goes far beyond her music. She really is an artist in all aspects. Just listening to her in interviews usually leaves me awestruck.

[@pattisteely4650]

Amazing artist Joni is❤

[@jrw344]

Holy cow, 21 years ago...

[@nikmills]

One of the most accomplished women on earth. Not exactly a feminist.

[@nunya1738]

Amen. And not at all a feminist, I would say. Her BBC interview a year or so ago, she was asked about this, and said she never could fall in with them. When asked why, she said something like, "Because I don't like getting posses together to gang up on men...(and with a smile added)...I'd rather duke it out one on one". There were a lot of feminists, I think, who had their illusions shattered when it became clear to them this woman they thought surely must be kin to that creed was point of fact not.

[@themartin9179]

Joni is an indigo; 7th dimensional angel for a higher self, instead of 6D like most.

[@adriennebrown3778]

Consummate Artist

[@carmenrizzo6408]

I want her

[@meadow9441]

I didn’t like her comment seeming to oppose arts funding and programs for socioeconomically disadvantaged people to be callous. I get her point about artists being a rare find, but still…you can only harvest the crops you plant so to speak. People need to be given resources and education to be able to exercise their abilities.

[@windy-cities-finnest]

Ut o

[@michaelodonovan7405]

Why do Americans/Canadians pronounce Van Gogh... Van Go when his name is pronounced Van Hock. I mean is it too hard to pronounce a persons name properly?

[@sonicboy19]

Tomayto, tomahto. The proper pronunciation of his name is rather irrelevant in the larger context; it's the fact that his work still resonates 125+ years after his death that carries significance.

[@classicmusicarchives7370]

Cuz that is what it looks and sounds like to us using the letters of his name and the sounds they make in English.

[@paulryan2128]

I've heard it both ways; was there any doubt about whom they were talking?