Joanna Newsom
Joanna Newsom
Joanna Caroline Newsom is an American harpist, pianist, vocalist, lyricist and actress...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionMusician
Date of Birth18 January 1982
CountryUnited States of America
cross deterrent expensive huge record tour
I would like to be on a record label, because it is very expensive to tour with a harp. It's a huge deterrent for me to go cross country.
american-musician felt songs urge
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.
american-musician bring music playing sound trying ways work
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.
american-musician good influenced invalid pleased sounds strokes valid
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.
writing college years
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.
song voice i-can
I can understand someone not liking the voice or the songs.
song play keys
I can't play my songs on the smaller harp. I have a Celtic harp. I can't do the key changes.
get-away folks rooted
I have a deep rooted folk sensibility that I can't get away from completely.
song writing years
I have writing songs on my own for about six years.
song writing thinking
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.
classical-music relation experimental-music
I am not doing something that it is experimental music in relation to classical music.
writing always-trying trying
I am always trying to write.
healing light grows
We deserve to know light. And grow evermore lighter and lighter.
blue whales voice
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.