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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
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Joanna Newsom
Age: 42
Born: 1982
Born: January 18
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Joanna Caroline Newsom
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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.
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I have a voice that's obviously untrained - and I think untrainable - so I kind of secreted it away for a long time. Actually, I would write songs with lyrics when I was younger, but I would just sing in my head.
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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.
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I can understand someone not liking the voice or the songs.
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The so-called positive press has in some ways been more difficult to swallow than the negative.
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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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I have a deep rooted folk sensibility that I can't get away from completely.
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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.
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I give away CDs at shows if someone wants a CD but doesn't have any money. I wouldn't want to do that forever.
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I have a recording that I did of instrumental songs.
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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.
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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.
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It broke my heart when I learned the moon had been passing the sun’s light off as its own.
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I'm not a wanderer, which is funny because I'm on tour half the time. I'm a home, hearth and family kind of person.
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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.
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I would happy for someone to download my music.
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I am not doing something that it is experimental music in relation to classical music.
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