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Famous Joanna Newsom Quotes
“I am not doing something that it is experimental music in relation to classical music.”
“I am producing sounds that people are not used to hearing from the harp.”
“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 have a deep rooted folk sensibility that I can't get away from completely.”
“I want to make music that somehow connects to the things that I love in America music.”
“I wasn't interested in writing music that wasn't beautiful for me to listen to.”
“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.”
“And a thimble's worth of milky moon Can touch hearts larger than a thimble.”
“I never thought people would be mortally offended by the sounds I was making.”
“The so-called positive press has in some ways been more difficult to swallow than the negative.”
“I don't think I'm abnormal and I think that lets people down.”
“If I ever met Dolly Parton for sure, I would just not be able to say anything. I love her.”
“Never get so attached to a poem that you forget truth that lacks lyricism.”
“What a woman does is open doors. And it is not a question of locking or unlocking.”
“It broke my heart when I learned the moon had been passing the sun’s light off as its own.”
“I am consciously trying not to make it sound Celtic or African.”
“I did spend a year in high school being obsessed with Fleetwood Mac.”