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
kids play two
I played piano for about two years when I was a kid. I didn't play long enough to be really great.
thinking people break
People are often afraid for me. They think that I am going to break. I can make it through a set.
interesting together way
The way that words fit together is always interesting to me. I love words.
home half kind
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.
fundamentals instruments appeals
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.
daughter play privilege
Families of privilege and money would have harps in their parlors, and their cultured daughters would learn to play. It's got such a strange history. But that wasn't the context that I learned it in, so the inherent friction between that history and the more humanist folk-y history wasn't in my conscience at all.
people would-be sound
I never thought people would be mortally offended by the sounds I was making.
expression play people
I don't look at people's expressions, because I still get nervous when I play, especially when I first put the harp up there. I just try to tune - it takes me a half-hour to tune, and I get nervous if I look at anybody when I do it.
ideas people negative
I've been unaware of how people react to the instrument. People have ideas of what a harp is supposed to sound like, and a lot of them are negative ideas.
beautiful voice people
I had known that people would probably have strange reactions to my voice, because I have kind of an unwieldy, difficult voice, but I never thought that anybody would have a problem with the harp. I just assumed... C'mon, it's a beautiful instrument.
way negative difficult
The so-called positive press has in some ways been more difficult to swallow than the negative.
thinking people abnormal
I don't think I'm abnormal and I think that lets people down.
bears i-can
I can bear a lot but not that pall
blessed said
We are blessed and sustained by what is not said