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• People are often afraid for me. They think that I am going to break. I can make it through a set.

  Joanna Newsom

  Thinking, People, Break

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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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.

  Joanna Newsom

  Ideas, Different, Delight

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I started playing harp about fourteen years ago.

  Joanna Newsom

  Years, Years Ago, Harps

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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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.

  Joanna Newsom

  Song, Simple, Thinking

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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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.

  Joanna Newsom

  School, Math, Rhyming

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• There are some mornings when the sky looks like a road.

  Joanna Newsom

  Morning, Sky, Looks

  Song: Clam, Crab, cockle, Cowrie, Album: Walnut Whales

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• I am consciously trying not to make it sound Celtic or African.

  Joanna Newsom

  Trying, Sound, Corny

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I did spend a year in high school being obsessed with Fleetwood Mac.

  Joanna Newsom

  School, Years, Obsession

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I played piano for about two years when I was a kid. I didn't play long enough to be really great.

  Joanna Newsom

  Kids, Years, Play

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I am always trying to write.

  Joanna Newsom

  Writing, Always Trying, Trying

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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

  Joanna Newsom

  Classical Music, Relation, Experimental Music

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I have writing songs on my own for about six years.

  Joanna Newsom

  Song, Writing, Years

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I have a deep rooted folk sensibility that I can't get away from completely.

  Joanna Newsom

  Get Away, Folks, I Can

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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

  Joanna Newsom

  Song, Play, Keys

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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

  Joanna Newsom

  Song, Voice, I Can

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I wanted to write songs which I think is a different thing. I wanted to write music that is informed by folk music. The chord progressions are obvious references.

  Joanna Newsom

  Song, Writing, Thinking

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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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.

  Joanna Newsom

  Blue, Whales, Voice

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I can bear a lot but not that pall

  Joanna Newsom

  Bears, I Can

  Song: Kingfisher, Album: Have One on Me, 2010

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• The so-called positive press has in some ways been more difficult to swallow than the negative.

  Joanna Newsom

  Way, Negative, Difficult

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• The way that words fit together is always interesting to me. I love words.

  Joanna Newsom

  Interesting, Together, Way

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I had known that people would probably have strange reactions to my voice, because I have kind of an unwieldy, difficult voice, but I never thought that anybody would have a problem with the harp. I just assumed... C'mon, it's a beautiful instrument.

  Joanna Newsom

  Beautiful, Voice, People

  Interview with Andy Battaglia, www.avclub.com. October 13, 2004.

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• I've been unaware of how people react to the instrument. People have ideas of what a harp is supposed to sound like, and a lot of them are negative ideas.

  Joanna Newsom

  Ideas, People, Sound

  Interview with Andy Battaglia, www.avclub.com. October 13, 2004.

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• I don't look at people's expressions, because I still get nervous when I play, especially when I first put the harp up there. I just try to tune - it takes me a half-hour to tune, and I get nervous if I look at anybody when I do it.

  Joanna Newsom

  Expression, Play, People

  Interview with Andy Battaglia, www.avclub.com. October 13, 2004.

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• 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.

  Joanna Newsom

  Daughter, Play, Privilege

  Interview with Andy Battaglia, www.avclub.com. October 13, 2004.

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• 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.

  Joanna Newsom

  Teacher, Years, Play

  Interview with Andy Battaglia, www.avclub.com. October 13, 2004.

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