I can understand someone not liking the voice or the songs.
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In high school, we studied a lot of poetical forms. I was really interested in the math that was involved and the strange live break ups. That gave me a great amount of respect for a rhymed stanza.Joanna Newsom
I went to school to become a composer.
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Lyrics are very different. There is a clear line between that and a poem. Something that has been a source of great excitement and delight for me is this idea that I get to rhyme.
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I wasn't interested in writing music that wasn't beautiful for me to listen to.
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I started playing harp about fourteen years ago.
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I want to make music that somehow connects to the things that I love in America music.
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I love painting and music, of course. I don't know nearly as much about them as I know about poetry. I've certainly been influenced by fiction. I was overwhelmed by War and Peace when I read it, and I didn't read it until I was in my late 20s.
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