Joanna Newsom Quotes
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I have writing songs on my own for about six years.
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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.
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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.
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We sailed away on a winter's dayWith fate as malleable as clayBut ships are fallible, I sayAnd the nautical, as all things, fades.
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This is the song for Baby Birch. I will never know you. And at the back of what we've done, there is that knowledge of you.
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I am producing sounds that people are not used to hearing from the harp.
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A feather of a hawk was boundBound around my neckA poultice made of figThe eager little vultures pecked
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We broke our hearts,in the war betweenSt. George and the dragon,but both, in equal part,are welcome to come along.I'm inviting everyone.