Joni Mitchell: "Why I 'hate' music"

[Bluebear]

http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/1114455404208_109864604/?hub=CanadaAM


"For 20 years I've been told I'm not good," the multiple-Grammy award winning musician said in an interview with CTV's Canada AM.

"You deliver a project with great enthusiasm and then you run into a hostile press, a stupid press…once they found out I didn't like music, then, to their delight, all they wanted out of me was to diss on everybody."

Mitchell pins the blame on record companies who meddle with the art. These days, musicians are thwarted from following their inspiration, she said.

"The relationship between the musician and their muse has been usurped by an intermediary who is calculating demographics and polls," she said.

"I saw one girl, a 14-year-old with a brand new bosom, and she shoved it at the camera and said 'I want to get my music to the world' and I thought, there is no muse in this…These are not creative people, these are created people."

[progmom]

1. Oh Joni....

x(
I totally understand what she's saying...it's just that sometimes she sounds so self-important.

[Bluebear]

3. I added the link...

oops, forgot initially.

I don't think she will ever get over "Mingus". But I do totally agree with her, the music biz is weighted 90% towards visuals these days and the music seems very secondary! Then again I am an 'old fart'.

[progmom]

5. When I had her sign my copy of Mingus, she said:

"That's the record that ruined my career!"

She was laughing, though. :) I adore her.

[mhr]

2. "These are not creative people, these are created people"

Kind of like Republicans!

[KT2000]

4. I love her crankiness!

she is still creating.
And she is right - what's up with the music now - they come and go with the speed of light. No growth and change.

[HughBeaumont]

6. Ha ha ha, she's talking about Titsy Lohan . .

Joni Mitchell = great.

[Bluebear]

7. "Titsy Lohan"????

OMG I have heard it all.

[JitterbugPerfume]

8. I adore Joni

she has integrity


a rare comodity

[bballny]

9. Too True

I posted on an earlier post that for a very short period in the sixties that the artists controlled the genre vs the record producers. That was why the late sixties the music was inspirational. Joni you said it all.

[Rabrrrrrr]

10. Joni Mitchell is RIGHT ON!

Preach it!!!!

She's one of the Great Ones!

[dolo amber]

11. Hmmm...

"For 20 years I've been told I'm not good," the multiple-Grammy award winning musician said..."

How is winning *multiple* Grammys being told you're not good? :shrug:

[Bluebear]

12. Her later albums were panned.

Her 60's and early 70's stuff is regarded as her best work and I think it frustrated her.