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Joanna Newsom Quotes
I am always trying to write. - Joanna Newsom Quotes
I am consciously not trying to bring in World Music elements. The ways that I work and feel are completely different in how they sound than someone playing the Kora in Africa would play it. - Joanna Newsom Quotes
I am consciously trying not to make it sound Celtic or African. - Joanna Newsom Quotes
I am not doing something that it is experimental music in relation to classical music. - Joanna Newsom Quotes
I am producing sounds that people are not used to hearing from the harp. - Joanna Newsom Quotes
I can understand someone not liking the voice or the songs. - Joanna Newsom Quotes
I cant play my songs on the smaller harp. I have a Celtic harp. I cant do the key changes. - Joanna Newsom Quotes
I definitely dont 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. - Joanna Newsom Quotes
I did spend a year in high school being obsessed with Fleetwood Mac. - Joanna Newsom Quotes
I give away CDs at shows if someone wants a CD but doesnt have any money. I wouldnt want to do that forever. - Joanna Newsom Quotes
I have a deep rooted folk sensibility that I cant get away from completely. - Joanna Newsom Quotes
I have a recording that I did of instrumental songs. - Joanna Newsom Quotes
I have writing songs on my own for about six years. - Joanna Newsom Quotes
I played piano for about two years when I was a kid. I didnt play long enough to be really great. - Joanna Newsom Quotes
I recorded harp first or singing first. I recorded it all together. Part of the reason is that I dont know how to play the songs without also singing. I forget how they progress. I dont think that any of them are verse, chorus, verse, and so on. They are not simple. - Joanna Newsom Quotes
I started playing harp about fourteen years ago. - Joanna Newsom Quotes
I want to make music that somehow connects to the things that I love in America music. - Joanna Newsom Quotes
I wanted to write songs which I think is a different thing. I wanted to write music that is informed by folk music. The chord progressions are obvious references. - Joanna Newsom Quotes
I wasnt interested in writing music that wasnt beautiful for me to listen to. - Joanna Newsom Quotes
I went to school to become a composer. - Joanna Newsom Quotes
I would happy for someone to download my music. - Joanna Newsom Quotes
I would like to be on a record label, because it is very expensive to tour with a harp. Its a huge deterrent for me to go cross country. - Joanna Newsom Quotes
If you are too serious, you are in danger of having everything taken at face value, instead of being allowed to have layers to it. - Joanna Newsom Quotes
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. - Joanna Newsom Quotes
Its totally different. I usually dont tell people about the Pleased if they know me from the harp. And if they are there to see the Pleased, I usually dont tell them about the harp. I am nervous that these people will expect something similar. - Joanna Newsom Quotes
Its valid that the Strokes and the Pleased have been influenced by some of the same bands. But its invalid in the sense that we listen to the Strokes and try to sounds like them. I think that they are a good band. - Joanna Newsom Quotes
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. - Joanna Newsom Quotes
People are often afraid for me. They think that I am going to break. I can make it through a set. - Joanna Newsom Quotes
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. - Joanna Newsom Quotes
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. - Joanna Newsom Quotes
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