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. Joanna Newsom More Quotes by Joanna Newsom More Quotes From Joanna Newsom I started playing harp about fourteen years ago. Joanna Newsom harps years-ago years I can't play my songs on the smaller harp. I have a Celtic harp. I can't do the key changes. Joanna Newsom keys play song People are often afraid for me. They think that I am going to break. I can make it through a set. Joanna Newsom break people thinking The way that words fit together is always interesting to me. I love words. Joanna Newsom together way interesting 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. Joanna Newsom rhyming lines song My voice in combination with the harp - which, by the way, I use because I've played it my entire life, not to make some statement about the harp - somehow has ... coloured people's interpretations of the music and projected an idea of childlike or fairytale quality or innocence. Which sometimes prevents people from listening to the songs the way I would like them to be listened to. Joanna Newsom voice song ideas And a thimble's worth of milky moon Can touch hearts larger than a thimble. Joanna Newsom moon heart And all that we built, and all that we breathed And all that we spilled or pulled up like weeds Is piled up in back and it burns irrevocably And we spoke up in turns 'til the silence crept over me. Joanna Newsom spokes weed silence I can bear a lot but not that pall Joanna Newsom i-can bears I have a deep rooted folk sensibility that I can't get away from completely. Joanna Newsom get-away folks i-can 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. Joanna Newsom college writing years This (film) gets more and more stirred up until the point doesn't have anything to do with solving a mystery. Joanna Newsom entertainment 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. Joanna Newsom i-am music work world 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. Joanna Newsom i-am know me people
