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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
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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.
Joanna Newsom
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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
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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.
Joanna Newsom
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I am consciously trying not to make it sound Celtic or African.
Joanna Newsom
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I can understand someone not liking the voice or the songs.
Joanna Newsom
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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
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The way that words fit together is always interesting to me. I love words.
Joanna Newsom
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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
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I did spend a year in high school being obsessed with Fleetwood Mac.
Joanna Newsom
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I want to make music that somehow connects to the things that I love in America music.
Joanna Newsom
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People are often afraid for me. They think that I am going to break. I can make it through a set.
Joanna Newsom
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I have a deep rooted folk sensibility that I can't get away from completely.
Joanna Newsom
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I am not doing something that it is experimental music in relation to classical music.
Joanna Newsom
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