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Joanna Newsom Quotes

American - Musician | January 18, 1982 -

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

Key Play Changes Songs Smaller Harp

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

Voice Someone I Can Understand Songs

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

I Am People Hearing Used Sounds Am

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

Love Music America Want Things Make

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.

Work Music I Am World Feel Someone

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

I Am Trying Sound Make African Am

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.

Together Simple Progress Singing

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.

Good People Voice Early Down More

I am always trying to write.

I Am Trying Write Always Am

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.

Great Me Excitement Line Delight

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.

Live Respect Great School Me High

The way that words fit together is always interesting to me. I love words.

Love Together Words Me Interesting

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