Joanna Newsom Quotes

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This is the song for Baby Birch.
I will never know you.
And at the back of what we've done,
there is that knowledge of you.

Joanna Newsom
We broke our hearts,
in the war between
St. George and the dragon,
but both, in equal part,
are welcome to come along.
I'm inviting everyone.

Joanna Newsom
Picking through your pocket lining, well what is this?
Scrap of sassafras, eh Sisyphus?

Joanna Newsom
We could stand for a century
Staring, with our heads cocked
In the broad daylight at this thing
Joy
Landlocked
In bodies that don't keep
Dumbstruck with the sweetness of being
Until we don't be

Joanna Newsom
And, when the bulbs do flash,
as bright as morning,
the crowd keeps on gathering
like an electric storm.

Joanna Newsom
And if you come and see me,
you will upset the order.
You cannot come and see me,
for I set myself apart.
But when you come and see me,
in California,
you cross the border of my heart.

Joanna Newsom
I do as I please.
Now I'm on my knees.
Your skin is something that I stir into my tea.
And I am watching you
and you are starry, starry, starry...

Joanna Newsom
My voice in combination with the harp - which, by the way, I use because I've played it my entire life, not to make some statement about the harp - somehow has … coloured people's interpretations of the music and projected an idea of childlike or fairytale quality or innocence. Which sometimes prevents people from listening to the songs the way I would like them to be listened to.

Joanna Newsom
A feather of a hawk was bound
Bound around my neck
A poultice made of fig
The eager little vultures pecked

Joanna Newsom
I killed my dinner
with karate
kicked him in the face, taste the body, shallow work is the work that I do.

Joanna Newsom
By the time you read this
I will be so far away
Daddy longlegs, how in the world
Am I to be expected to stay?

Joanna Newsom