Joanna Newsom Quotes

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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.

  Joanna Newsom

  Voice, People, Track

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• It broke my heart when I learned the moon had been passing the sun’s light off as its own.

  Joanna Newsom

  Heart, Moon, Light

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• We deserve to know light. And grow evermore lighter and lighter.

  Joanna Newsom

  Healing, Light, Grows

  Song: Sawdust and Diamonds, Album: Ys, 2006

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• What a woman does is open doors. And it is not a question of locking or unlocking.

  Joanna Newsom

  Doors, Doe, Unlocking

  Song: Go Long, Album: Have One on Me, 2010

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• Never get so attached to a poem that you forget truth that lacks lyricism.

  Joanna Newsom

  Forget

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• I don't think I'm abnormal and I think that lets people down.

  Joanna Newsom

  Thinking, People, Abnormal

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• We are blessed and sustained by what is not said

  Joanna Newsom

  Blessed, Said

  Song: Easy, 2010

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• I would happy for someone to download my music.

  Joanna Newsom

  Downloads

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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

  Joanna Newsom

  Beautiful, Writing, Writing Music

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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

  Joanna Newsom

  People, Hearing, Sound

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I have a voice that's obviously untrained - and I think untrainable - so I kind of secreted it away for a long time. Actually, I would write songs with lyrics when I was younger, but I would just sing in my head.

  Joanna Newsom

  Song, Writing, Thinking

  Interview with Andy Battaglia, www.avclub.com. October 13, 2004.

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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.

  Joanna Newsom

  Twilight, Thorns, Born

  Song: Sawdust and Diamonds, Album: Ys, 2006

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

  Joanna Newsom

  America, Want

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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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.

  Joanna Newsom

  Cds, Giving, Forever

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• If I ever met Dolly Parton for sure, I would just not be able to say anything. I love her.

  Joanna Newsom

  Say Anything, Able, Mets

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• I have a recording that I did of instrumental songs.

  Joanna Newsom

  Song

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• You should listen to a lot of different music.

  Joanna Newsom

  Different, Should, Different Music

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• And a thimble's worth of milky moon Can touch hearts larger than a thimble.

  Joanna Newsom

  Heart, Moon

  Song: Bridges and Balloons, Album: The Milk-Eyed Mender, 2004

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• I never thought people would be mortally offended by the sounds I was making.

  Joanna Newsom

  People, Would Be, Sound

  Interview with Andy Battaglia, www.avclub.com. October 13, 2004.

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• My voice in combination with the harp - which, by the way, I use because I've played it my entire life, not to make some statement about the harp - somehow has ... coloured people's interpretations of the music and projected an idea of childlike or fairytale quality or innocence. Which sometimes prevents people from listening to the songs the way I would like them to be listened to.

  Joanna Newsom

  Song, Ideas, Voice

  Sydney Morning Herald, October 10, 2005.

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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.

  Joanna Newsom

  Weed, Silence, Spokes

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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.

  Joanna Newsom

  Home, Half, Kind

  Interview with Brian Howe, pitchfork.com. November 20, 2006.

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• I didn't really know a lot of the history when I was younger. I didn't realize that the harp is coded in such a specific way in musical circles. It's kind of this society instrument because of its history as a young woman's parlor instrument.

  Joanna Newsom

  Circles, Musical, Way

  Interview with Andy Battaglia, www.avclub.com. October 13, 2004.

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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.

  Joanna Newsom

  Easter, Islands, San Francisco

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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

  Joanna Newsom

  School, Years, Obsession

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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