Joanna Newsom: Trending quotes (page 2)

“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.”

Joanna Newsom

Go Long
Have One On Me (2010)

Men , Kiss , Loneliness

“"Have you come, then, to rescue me?"
He laughed and said, "from what, 'Colleen'?"
You dried and dressed most willingly.
You corseted, and caught the dread disease
by which one comes to know such peace."”

Joanna Newsom

Colleen
Joanna Newsom and the Ys Street Band (2007)

Disease , Peace

“Love is not a symptom of time.
Time is just a symptom of love”

Joanna Newsom

Divers https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Divers_(Joanna_Newsom_album) (2015)

Love , Time

“Wolf-spider, crouch in your funnel nest.
If I knew you, once,
now I know you less.
In the sinking sand,
where we've come to rest,
have I had a hand in your loneliness?”

Joanna Newsom

Have One On Me (2010)

Wolf , Loneliness

“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

Sydney Morning Herald, 10 October 2005

Life , People , Music , Way

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

Joanna Newsom

Ys (2006)

“I know we must abide
each by the rules that bind us here:
the divers, and the sailors, and the women on the pier.”

Joanna Newsom

Divers https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Divers_(Joanna_Newsom_album) (2015)

Women

“Go to sleep, you stunning sky, gently creep, cunning by
A quiet hum is amplified by your thumb that you suck dry
A hundred raging waters snare the lonely sigh
Hold your breath and clasp at Cassiopeia.”

Joanna Newsom

Cassiopeia
The Milk-Eyed Mender (2004)

Sleep , Water , Rage

“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?”

Joanna Newsom

Sawdust & Diamonds
Ys (2006)

Soul

“Coats of bouclé, jacquard and cashmere;
cartouche and tweed, all silver shot —
and everything that could remind you
of how easy I was not.”

Joanna Newsom

Have One On Me (2010)

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

Joanna Newsom

Sadie
The Milk-Eyed Mender (2004)

Love

“And all that we built, and all that we breathed
And all that we spilled or pulled up like weeds
Is piled up in back and it burns irrevocably
And we spoke up in turns 'til the silence crept over me.”

Joanna Newsom

The Milk-Eyed Mender (2004)

Silence

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

Joanna Newsom

Divers https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Divers_(Joanna_Newsom_album) (2015)

Death , Pain , Birth

“In martial wind, and in clarion rain,
we minced into battle, wincing in pain;
not meant for walking, backs bound in twine:
not angel or devil,
but level, in time.”

Joanna Newsom

Divers https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Divers_(Joanna_Newsom_album) (2015)

Pain , Angels , Time

“We are blessed and sustained by what is not said”

Joanna Newsom

Easy
Have One On Me (2010)

“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

In California
Have One On Me (2010)

Heart

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

Joanna Newsom

Have One On Me (2010)

Love , Life

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

Joanna Newsom

Jackrabbits
Have One On Me (2010)

“lists of sins and solemn vows
don't make you any friends.”

Joanna Newsom

The Things I Say
Divers https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Divers_(Joanna_Newsom_album) (2015)

“So it would seem to be true:
when cruel birth debases, we forget.
When cruel death debases,
we believe it erases all the rest
that precedes.
But stand brave, life-liver,
bleeding out your days
in the river of time.
Stand brave:
time moves both ways”

Joanna Newsom

Divers https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Divers_(Joanna_Newsom_album) (2015)

Life , Death , Way , Birth