Joni Mitchell Quotes
I don't like being too looked up at or too looked down on. I prefer meeting in the middle to being worshiped or spat out.
Marom, Malka. Joni Mitchell: In Her Own Words. ECW Press, 2014.
This statement was made before there was a Civil Rights Act or a Voting Rights Act and racial discrimination was rampant in America.
Lebanon had been ravaged by a religious civil war between the Muslims and the Christians. It had just ended when Salam made this famous pronouncement which set the tone for most Lebanese.
Referring to the Public School System:
This proverb operates with the force of law and in a sense is the doctrine of contributory negligence. I have a right to compensation for damage you have done me unless I have done something which impinges on your rights. If your camel destroys my crops, my rights have been violated, but if had used your camel without your permission, and he got out of control. I right is cancelled out. In a larger sense, this principle is used globally in international disputes. The Israeli right to live in peace has been, in the view of some Arabs, “cancelled out” by the fact that the Israelis have taken others land.
Roberta Joan "Joni" Mitchell CC is a Canadian singer-songwriter. Drawing from folk, pop, rock, classical, and jazz, Mitchell's songs often reflect on social and philosophical ideals as well as her feelings about romance, womanhood, disillusionment, and joy. She has received many accolades, including nine Grammy Awards and induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1997. Rolling Stone called her "one of the greatest songwriters ever", and AllMusic has stated, "When the dust settles, Joni Mitchell may stand as the most important and influential female recording artist of the late 20th century".
