Joanna Newsom Quotes

I Played Piano For About Two Years When I Was A Kid. I Didn't Play Long Enough To Be Really Great.

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.

People Are Often Afraid For Me. They Think That I Am Going To Break. I Can Make It Through A Set.

The Way That Words Fit Together Is Always Interesting To Me. I Love Words.

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.

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.

I Can Bear A Lot But Not That Pall

I Didn't Sing For Years And Years, But I Started Playing Harp When I Was Maybe 9 Or 10. I Had Actually Wanted To Play For Years Leading Up To That, But No Teacher In Our Little Town Would Take Me On As A Student, Because I Was Too Young.

There's Something Fundamental To The Harp That Has Retained Its Appeal My Whole Life. It's An Instrument I Am Just In Love With.

Families Of Privilege And Money Would Have Harps In Their Parlors, And Their Cultured Daughters Would Learn To Play. It's Got Such A Strange History. But That Wasn't The Context That I Learned It In, So The Inherent Friction Between That History And The More Humanist Folk-y History Wasn't In My Conscience At All.

I've Been Unaware Of How People React To The Instrument. People Have Ideas Of What A Harp Is Supposed To Sound Like, And A Lot Of Them Are Negative Ideas.

Around Eighth Grade I Decided I Wanted To Be A Composer And That's What I Went To College For. Just A Few Years Back, I Switched Out Of Composition And Into Creative Writing So I Could Work With Words.