I read more than once the interesting interview with Joni that was being commented on a few days ago. I found and I am reprinting some of the more interesting quotes that cought my attention. You are free to comment on them as you wish. Im not angling to debate or whatever i just found them interesting so i thought Id share them since they are directly from Joni herself. <<<it has to do with male temperament. If a woman has a problem and she tells it to a woman, the woman sympathizes. If a woman has a problem and she tells it to a man, he wants to resolve it.>>> <<< When I wrote "Both Sides Now" I loved the melodic movement of the standards of the previous era, which still had one foot in classical composition. The chords were quite sophisticated, whereas now you have any old Joe picking up a guitar who doesn't have that knowledge. I felt the music was degenerating in a certain way. So the idea was to keep some of the classicism and the sophistication going in my music without the degeneration that I felt was coming out of folk music. However, with that sophisticated melodic movement, you were limited to short phrases, whereas the folk-music influence the singer/songwriters were coming out of had longer lines. You could get into descriptive passages, but you couldn't move a lot of melody through those things. >>> <<<The standards had a lot of melodic movement and a very simple statement broken up into short phrases. Whereas the folk music of the singer/songwriter movement was losing the sophistication of melody and harmony, but it was gaining longer, lyrical lines. <<< >>>>Also, lingering in everything from dancing to black rock 'n roll was this hybrid >with African music. You know, African rhythm and blues meets Ireland with its rhythms. >>> <<<I never thought I would become a poet but when I did and people would ask me to interpret those things I realized that even when I've written about something specific, it could be reinterpreted 20 years later when you bring another experience to it.>>> <<<Yes, because I was equipped to be an athlete, which would have made me popular within the community. My father was a good athlete. But because of my handicap I had no speed, which gave me an inner life. >>> <<<I'd broken with the church early because I liked the stories and I was curious about the loopholes. When I asked too many questions, they treated me as if there was something wrong. I remember I got into hot water over Adam and Eve had two sons, Cain and Abel, and then Abel got married. Who did he marry? Eve? I got into some flak over that. >>> <<<People print their assumptions. That's my main problem. Journalism has become increasingly irresponsible. We have to do more of it, so it creates a greater and greater public misunderstanding. The truthfulness of the pieces gets crazier and crazier. So much is printed now that is just false and it gets collected into books and publishers claim this is your life. And what you've got is a book that is 99% bullshit. >>> <<<I am absolutely not a feminist. I prefer the company of men to women, always have. And I'm constantly lumped in with women with whom I don't belong.>>> <<<< So I explored in that direction and came to the conclusion that everything - animal, vegetable and mineral - is muck under pressure>>>> <<<I made 13 albums without a producer. There's not even a producer's credit.>>> <<<When I married Larry Klein he was a bass player, but inside our marriage he became a producer. Then he started hanging around in my sessions and that's the main reason why we divorced. >>>
