For one thing, I just can't get into her singing.  For some reason, I have never enjoyed prolonged high-pitched singing and have been this way all my life. 

My father was a fine musician and mostly played bluegrass and folk music. I believe bluegrass musicians, especially in an ensemble, are of the finest technical musicians around but of all those years, I have been unable to enjoy bluegrass music.  I've always wished I could train my ears to enjoy it, but I can't.

Next, I'm not a huge fan of stream-of-conscious-type lyrics, nor have I ever been able to really enjoy poetry.  I've always wished poetry would reach out and grab me like others, but it just does not. 

Don't get me wrong, if not for Mitchell, there probably would never have been the crop of women singer/songwriters that came after, but her music is just not for me and that is not taking anything away from her as an artist at all - it's just her art does not appeal to my tastes. 

Lastly, and this one may seem trivial but it is important to me.  My sister died of lung cancer at the age of 43 and I watched her unable to end that addiction even up until her death.  My Mother also smoked all her life, resulting in lung issues throughout her life. My Father also smoked.  Somehow, and I am grateful for it, smoking tobacco was not my thing.  All through her life, Mitchell has been seen with a burning cigarette as if it were a prop and I think of all the impressionable young ladies over the years who picked up cigarettes because of someone they were fond of or tried to emulate.