I am not doing something that it is experimental music in relation to classical music. — 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 am consciously not trying to bring in World Music elements. The ways that I work and feel are completely different in… — Joanna Newsom Copy Share Image
I wanted to write songs which I think is a different thing. I wanted to write music that is informed by folk… — Joanna Newsom Copy Share Image
I want to make music that somehow connects to the things that I love in America music. — Joanna Newsom Copy Share Image
I wasn't interested in writing music that wasn't beautiful for me to listen to. — 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
