Joanna Newsom Quotes

I would happy for someone to download my music.
Joanna Newsom

Music, Happy, Someone

I am always trying to write.
Joanna Newsom

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

Music, Work, Someone

I am consciously trying not to make it sound Celtic or African.
Joanna Newsom

Trying, Sound, African

I am not doing something that it is experimental music in relation to classical music.
Joanna Newsom

Music, Classical, Relation

I am producing sounds that people are not used to hearing from the harp.
Joanna Newsom

Used, Sounds, Hearing

I can understand someone not liking the voice or the songs.
Joanna Newsom

Someone, Understand, Voice

I can't play my songs on the smaller harp. I have a Celtic harp. I can't do the key changes.
Joanna Newsom

Play, Changes, Songs

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.
Joanna Newsom

Good, Down, Voice

I did spend a year in high school being obsessed with Fleetwood Mac.
Joanna Newsom

School, Year, High

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.
Joanna Newsom

Money, Someone, Give

I have a deep rooted folk sensibility that I can't get away from completely.
Joanna Newsom

Deep, Away, Folk

I have a recording that I did of instrumental songs.
Joanna Newsom

Songs, Recording

I have writing songs on my own for about six years.
Joanna Newsom

Writing, Songs, Six

I played piano for about two years when I was a kid. I didn't play long enough to be really great.
Joanna Newsom

Great, Long, Two

I recorded harp first or singing first. I recorded it all together. Part of the reason is that I don't know how to play the songs without also singing. I forget how they progress. I don't think that any of them are verse, chorus, verse, and so on. They are not simple.
Joanna Newsom

Simple, Forget, Together

I started playing harp about fourteen years ago.
Joanna Newsom

Playing, Started, Fourteen

I want to make music that somehow connects to the things that I love in America music.
Joanna Newsom

Love, Music, America

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

Music, Different, Wanted

I wasn't interested in writing music that wasn't beautiful for me to listen to.
Joanna Newsom

Music, Beautiful, Writing

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

Great, Respect, School

It's totally different. I usually don't tell people about the Pleased if they know me from the harp. And if they are there to see the Pleased, I usually don't tell them about the harp. I am nervous that these people will expect something similar.
Joanna Newsom

Different, Tell, Expect

It's valid that the Strokes and the Pleased have been influenced by some of the same bands. But it's 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

Good, Try, Same

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

Great, Different, Between

People are often afraid for me. They think that I am going to break. I can make it through a set.
Joanna Newsom

Through, Afraid, Often

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Nationality: American

Born: January 18, 1982

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