Joanna Newsom Quotes
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'Have you come, then, to rescue me?'He laughed and said, 'from what, 'Colleen'?' You dried and dressed most willingly.You corseted, and caught the dread diseaseby which one comes to know such peace.'
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We are blessed and sustained by what is not said
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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.
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Driven through by her own sword,summer died last night, alone.
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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.
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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.
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I am not doing something that it is experimental music in relation to classical music.
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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.
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Go to sleep, you stunning sky, gently creep, cunning byA quiet hum is amplified by your thumb that you suck dryA hundred raging waters snare the lonely sighHold your breath and clasp at Cassiopeia.
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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.
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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.
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I did spend a year in high school being obsessed with Fleetwood Mac.
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The very first Walnut Whales recording was recorded just a few weeks after I had started singing, out of the blue, started singing. And the voice, you can hear how uncomfortable I am with it, and how terrified I am with it.
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I want to make music that somehow connects to the things that I love in America music.
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I would happy for someone to download my music.
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By the time you read thisI will be so far awayDaddy longlegs, how in the worldAm I to be expected to stay?
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Now her coat drags through the water,Bagging, with a life's-worth of hunger, limitless minnowsIn the magnetic embrace,Balletic and glacial, of Bear's insatiable shadow.
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The way that words fit together is always interesting to me. I love words.
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Picking through your pocket lining, well what is this?Scrap of sassafras, eh Sisyphus?
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I can understand someone not liking the voice or the songs.
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And if you come and see me,you will upset the order.You cannot come and see me,for I set myself apart.But when you come and see me,in California,you cross the border of my heart.
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And, when the bulbs do flash,as bright as morning,the crowd keeps on gatheringlike an electric storm.
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And a thimble's worth of milky moonCan touch hearts larger than a thimble.
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But it can make you feel over, and old (Lord, you know it's a shame), when I only want for you to pull over, and hold me,till I can't remember my own name.