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born 1982 United States

Joanna Newsom (born 1982) is an American singer-songwriter. She plays the harp, as well as the piano and the harpischord.

United States
Singer-songwriters
Singers

Also known as: Joanna newsom

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

The Milk-Eyed Mender (2004)

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

Have One On Me (2010)

And a thimble's worth of milky moon
Can touch hearts larger than a thimble.

The Milk-Eyed Mender (2004)

My favorite book of all time is The Last Unicorn by Peter S. Beagle.

And never will I wed.
I'll hunt the pearl of death to the bottom of my life,
and ever hold my breath,
till I may be the diver's wife.

Divers (2015)

It is too short —
the day we are born,
we commence with our dying.

Have One On Me (2010)

While yonder, wild and blue,
the wild blue yonder looms.
Till we are wracked with rheum,
by roads, by songs entombed.

The Milk-Eyed Mender (2004)

Hey little leaf, lying on the ground—
now you're turning slightly brown!
Why don't you come back on the tree,
turn the color green the way you ought to be?

Divers (2015)

And in an infinite regress:
Tell me, why is the pain of birth
lighter borne than the pain of death?

Divers (2015)

We are blessed and sustained by what is not said

Have One On Me (2010)

The tap of hangers,
swaying in the closet —
unburdened hooks
and empty drawers —
and everywhere I tried to love you
is yours again,
and only yours.

Have One On Me (2010)

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?

Have One On Me (2010)

And though our bones, they may break
And our souls separate,
why the long face?
And though our bodies recoil
From the grip of the soil,
why the long face?

Ys (2006)

And the love we hold, and the love we spurn,
Will never grow cold, only taciturn

The Milk-Eyed Mender (2004)

In this life, who did you love,
beneath the drifting ashes,
beneath the sheeting banks of air
that barrenly bore our rations?

Have One On Me (2010)

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.

Have One On Me (2010)

I may have changed, it's hard to gauge
Time won't account for how I've aged
Would that I could tie your lying tongue
Who says that leaving keeps you young.

Have One On Me (2010)

With the loneliness
of you mighty men,
with your mighty kiss
that might never, never end,
while, so far away,
in the seat of the West,
burns the fount
of the heat
of that loneliness.

Have One On Me (2010)

I'm really interested in the harp as a fully actualized, self-contained way of presenting songs. That there is a bass in the harp - there is a way to create a rhythmic sense without drums - there's a way to have all sorts of textural variations and expressive variations.

We sailed away on a winter's day
With fate as malleable as clay
But ships are fallible, I say
And the nautical, as all things, fades.

The Milk-Eyed Mender (2004)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Joanna Newsom (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.