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" I have a recording that I did of instrumental songs. "
Joanna Newsom
Instrumental
Songs
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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
Progress
Know
Together
" I started playing harp about fourteen years ago. "
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Fourteen
Started
Playing
" I am consciously trying not to make it sound Celtic or African. "
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Trying
Sound
I Am
" I have a deep rooted folk sensibility that I can't get away from completely. "
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Deep
Get
Folk
" I am not doing something that it is experimental music in relation to classical music. "
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Music
I Am
Doing
" I am producing sounds that people are not used to hearing from the harp. "
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Sounds
People
I Am
" I want to make music that somehow connects to the things that I love in America music. "
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Things
Music
Want
" People are often afraid for me. They think that I am going to break. I can make it through a set. "
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I Can
I Am
People
" 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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CDs
Away
Want
" I can understand someone not liking the voice or the songs. "
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Understand
Songs
I Can
" 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
High
School
Respect
" 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
Think
Obvious
Write
" The way that words fit together is always interesting to me. I love words. "
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Interesting
Words
Together
" 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. "
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Fast
Done
People
" I did spend a year in high school being obsessed with Fleetwood Mac. "
Joanna Newsom
High School
Year
School
" I wasn't interested in writing music that wasn't beautiful for me to listen to. "
Joanna Newsom
Me
Listen
Beautiful
" 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
Play
World
Work
" 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
Early
Harmony
Voice
" 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
" I can't play my songs on the smaller harp. I have a Celtic harp. I can't do the key changes. "
Joanna Newsom
Celtic
Harp
Key
" 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
Different
Me
Excitement
" I played piano for about two years when I was a kid. I didn't play long enough to be really great. "
Joanna Newsom
Play
Enough
Great
" I am always trying to write. "
Joanna Newsom
Am
Trying
Write
" I have writing songs on my own for about six years. "
Joanna Newsom
My Own
Own
Six