Quotes by Joanna Newsom

Joanna Newsom

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

Heart

Moon

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.

Daughter

Play

Privilege

I am not doing something that it is experimental music in relation to classical music.

Classical Music

Experimental Music

Relation

I can bear a lot but not that pall

Bears

I Can

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

I Can

Song

Voice

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

Keys

Play

Song

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.

People

Track

Voice

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.

Circles

Musical

Way

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.

Play

Teacher

Years

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

Abnormal

People

Thinking

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Daughter

Different

Different Music

Difficult

Doe

Doors

Easter

Experimental Music

Folks

Forget

Get Away

Grows

Harps

Healing

Heart

I Can

Ideas

Islands

Keys

Kids

Light

Lines

Looks

Math

Mets

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Quotes by Joanna Newsom

Joanna Newsom

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

I am not doing something that it is experimental music in relation to classical music.

I can bear a lot but not that pall

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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