Joanna Newsom Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“I definitely don't subscribe to the theory that more instruments, or more vocal tracks, harmony, or double tracking the voice, is a good thing. People do their early albums very stripped down, then each album becomes bloated.”
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“I'm not a wanderer, which is funny because I'm on tour half the time. I'm a home, hearth and family kind of person.”
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“I would happy for someone to download my music.”
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“I am producing sounds that people are not used to hearing from the harp.”
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“I can understand someone not liking the voice or the songs.”
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“I can't play my songs on the smaller harp. I have a Celtic harp. I can't do the key changes.”
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“The very first Walnut Whales recording was recorded just a few weeks after I had started singing, out of the blue, started singing. And the voice, you can hear how uncomfortable I am with it, and how terrified I am with it.”
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“I give away CDs at shows if someone wants a CD but doesn't have any money. I wouldn't want to do that forever.”
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“I have a deep rooted folk sensibility that I can't get away from completely.”
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“I have a recording that I did of instrumental songs.”
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“I have writing songs on my own for about six years.”
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“I started playing harp about fourteen years ago.”
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“I want to make music that somehow connects to the things that I love in America music.”
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“I am not doing something that it is experimental music in relation to classical music.”
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“I wasn't born of a whistle or milked from a thistle at twilight No I was all horns and thorns sprung out fully formed, knock-kneed and upright.”
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“What a woman does is open doors. And it is not a question of locking or unlocking.”
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“It broke my heart when I learned the moon had been passing the sun’s light off as its own.”
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“Lyrics are very different. There is a clear line between that and a poem. Something that has been a source of great excitement and delight for me is this idea that I get to rhyme.”
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“In high school, we studied a lot of poetical forms. I was really interested in the math that was involved and the strange live break ups. That gave me a great amount of respect for a rhymed stanza.”
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“There are some mornings when the sky looks like a road.”
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“I am consciously trying not to make it sound Celtic or African.”
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“I did spend a year in high school being obsessed with Fleetwood Mac.”
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“People in San Francisco and the East Bay have shown interest, done interviews, and have come to shows. I guess that the news travels fast out of this island that we are on.”
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“I played piano for about two years when I was a kid. I didn't play long enough to be really great.”
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“We deserve to know light. And grow evermore lighter and lighter.”
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“We are blessed and sustained by what is not said”
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“And all that we built, and all that we breathed And all that we spilled or pulled up like weeds Is piled up in back and it burns irrevocably And we spoke up in turns 'til the silence crept over me.”
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“And a thimble's worth of milky moon Can touch hearts larger than a thimble.”
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