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Joanna Newsom

American Musician

Born: Jan 18, 1982

Am Different Me Music People Think

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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. Joanna Newsom

Good People Subscribe Down Harmony Definitely Stripped Vocal More Voice Good Thing Instruments Tracking Tracks Becomes Bloated Very Double Then Theory Each Thing Early Album Albums

People in San Francisco and the East Bay have shown interest, done interviews, and have come to shows. I guess that the news travels fast out of this island that we are on. Joanna Newsom

News People Guess Interviews Francisco East Out Bay Come Island Done San San Francisco Interest Shown Shows Fast Travels

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. Joanna Newsom

Money Someone Give Forever Any Want Wants Shows Away

I started playing harp about fourteen years ago. Joanna Newsom

Harp About Years Years Ago Fourteen Started Playing

I have a recording that I did of instrumental songs. Joanna Newsom

Recording Songs Instrumental Did

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

Folk Get Sensibility Rooted Deep Away

I wasn't interested in writing music that wasn't beautiful for me to listen to. Joanna Newsom

Beautiful Music Me Writing Listen Interested

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

Key Changes Harp Songs Smaller Celtic Play

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

Someone Voice Songs Liking Understand

I am producing sounds that people are not used to hearing from the harp. Joanna Newsom

People Harp Am Sounds Hearing Producing Used

I want to make music that somehow connects to the things that I love in America music. Joanna Newsom

Love Music Somehow Make America Want Connects Things

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

Work Music World Ways Would Someone Feel How Sound Am Than Trying Africa Different Elements Play World Music Bring Playing

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

Great Me Lyrics Has-Been Something Poem Delight Clear Excitement Idea Between Line Been Source Very Get Different Rhyme

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

It's valid that the Strokes and the Pleased have been influenced by some of the same bands. But it's invalid in the sense that we listen to the Strokes and try to sounds like them. I think that they are a good band. Joanna Newsom

Good Try Band Sense Think Valid Pleased Strokes Some Invalid Like Sounds Been Bands Same Listen Influenced Them Good Band

Well, yeah, I wanted to resist the urge to thicken everything up with instrumentation, because I just felt like I was interested in seeing how the songs did on their own. Joanna Newsom

Own Everything Seeing Songs Like Well Instrumentation Because Felt How Yeah Up Did Just Wanted Interested Urge Resist

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

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