Joanna Newsom Quotes About Songs

Quotes about: Songs

• 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

  Song, Simple, Thinking

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

• 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.

• 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.

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

  Joanna Newsom

  Song, Voice, I Can

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

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

  Joanna Newsom

  Song, Play, Keys

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

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

  Joanna Newsom

  Song

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

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

  Joanna Newsom

  Song, Writing, Years

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

• 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

  Song, Writing, Thinking

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

• I have a lot of interest in interior rhyming; not just rhyming at the end of the lines, but playing around with rhymes within the lines, playing with where the syllabic emphases in the sentences are, lining those up at strange moments in the line of the song. I’m not sure if that comes across or not.

  Joanna Newsom

  Song, Lines, Rhyming

  "Harp's Delight - An interview with Joanna Newsom". Interview with Michael Cramer, www.dustedmagazine.com.

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