I am producing sounds that people are not used to hearing from the harp. — Joanna Newsom Copy Share Image
There's something fundamental to the harp that has retained its appeal my whole life. It's an instrument I am just in love… — Joanna Newsom Copy Share Image
I didn't really know a lot of the history when I was younger. I didn't realize that the harp is coded in… — Joanna Newsom Copy Share Image
I recorded harp first or singing first. I recorded it all together. Part of the reason is that I don't know how… — Joanna Newsom Copy Share Image
Families of privilege and money would have harps in their parlors, and their cultured daughters would learn to play. It's got such… — Joanna Newsom Copy Share Image
I didn't sing for years and years, but I started playing harp when I was maybe 9 or 10. I had actually… — Joanna Newsom Copy Share Image
I had known that people would probably have strange reactions to my voice, because I have kind of an unwieldy, difficult voice,… — Joanna Newsom Copy Share Image
My voice in combination with the harp - which, by the way, I use because I've played it my entire life, not… — Joanna Newsom Copy Share Image
I can't play my songs on the smaller harp. I have a Celtic harp. I can't do the key changes. — Joanna Newsom Copy Share Image
I've been unaware of how people react to the instrument. People have ideas of what a harp is supposed to sound like,… — Joanna Newsom Copy Share Image
I don't look at people's expressions, because I still get nervous when I play, especially when I first put the harp up… — Joanna Newsom Copy Share Image
I never thought people would be mortally offended by the sounds I was making. — Joanna Newsom Copy Share Image
It broke my heart when I learned the moon had been passing the sun’s light off as its own. — Joanna Newsom Copy Share Image
I wasn't born of a whistle or milked from a thistle at twilight No I was all horns and thorns sprung out fully formed,… — Joanna Newsom Copy Share Image
Lyrics are very different. There is a clear line between that and a poem. Something that has been a source of great excitement and… — Joanna Newsom Copy Share Image
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. — Joanna Newsom Copy Share Image
I am producing sounds that people are not used to hearing from the harp. — Joanna Newsom Copy Share Image
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… — Joanna Newsom Copy Share Image
I have a voice that's obviously untrained - and I think untrainable - so I kind of secreted it away for a long time.… — Joanna Newsom Copy Share Image
There's something fundamental to the harp that has retained its appeal my whole life. It's an instrument I am just in love with. — Joanna Newsom Copy Share Image
What a woman does is open doors. And it is not a question of locking or unlocking. — Joanna Newsom Copy Share Image
