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"To show that all things are possible, and permissible, for me, as a singer-songwriter -- They're my roots. Joni was part of my life from the moment I heard her. And on the single I want to move from the Keith Jarret jazz plus reggae undertones in Cornflake Girl into Joni's A Case of You and make it a seduction, heightening the undertone that was always there, when a woman sings to a man 'I could drink a case of you'!" (laughs)
-- Tori; Hot Press, Feb 1994
"So I'll listen to some song and say, 'Why didn't *I* write that?'...I could name five songs, right off the top of my head, that I would have given my right arm to write. [Joni Mitchell's] Case of you: You don't get it any better. A better song hasn't been written. I don't care what female singer/songwriter you throw up in my face: None has done anything in the league of Case of You, me included. I sing Case of You almost every night in concert because of that. For a woman to be able to say what that says, with that kind of addiction and yet that kind of grace, is just not done. Even Zeppelin and those guys listened to Joni. They were *totally* influenced by Joni.
-- Tori; Keyboard, Nov 1994
"I think there's a great bond with Joni MItchell, Patti Smith and Carole King. I'm not talking about the music, but simply of a continuity on the emotional point of view. If you look at the past, you realize that the great history roles have been always hold by men: from Euripides to Michlangelo, from Bach to Mozart, from Galileo to Baudelaire, it's been men who've had always the control, and the opportunity to make something, to achieve a big goal"
-- Tori; Musica Magazine, 1996
"She took the clay and moulded it in a way we hadn't seen before. If you really sort of analyse songwriting at that time, male or female, what she was doing with her structures and her use of melody and her poetry and the voice too, you know that's just one of the gifts that we've had.
-- Tori; "She Bop", BBC Radio 2, Jun 22 & 29, 2002
"Best song by a female artist? Very difficult. I think we should go back in time, umm, this is something that a lot of us can agree on and it's not the best, i don't think that's fair but it's potent and it's still potent. umm. Joni Mitchell Blue has resonated with a lot of us and, umm, Kate Bush Hounds of Love. These were really ground-breaking records of there time.
-- Tori; MTV2 Links, Nov 24, 2001
"I'd been playing piano since I was two-and-a-half, but now I realized the importance of passion. John Bonham! Man, that guy could fuck to a metronome. The Beatles and Joni Mitchell had already taught me about structure and shape, but Zeppelin were evoking God knows what."
-- Tori; Mojo Magazine, Oct 2001
JONI MITCHELL LADIES OF THE CANYON (Reprise album, 1970) and BLUE (Reprise album, 1971) - "I know everyone mentions Joni Mitchell, but you have to, really. I can't think of anyone who was doing it like she was doing it. She was the musician's musician. I've heard Robert Plant speak about how she was influencing him! And that makes sense to me - how could she not?"
-- Tori; Spin Magazine, Nov 2002
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