Joanna Newsom: Timing

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

Joanna Newsom

chickfactor.com - Issue 16, 2005
Context: Well, Nabokov is definitely my favorite author, though I feel strange calling him an "influence," since I can't trace the ways in which his writing may or may not have seeped into my own. But I also love William Faulkner, Thomas Pynchon, Kenneth Patchen, Joyce Carol Oates, Philip Roth, Mark Helprin (who wrote a beautiful book called Winter's Tale), and Kurt Vonnegut. My favorite book of all time is The Last Unicorn by Peter S. Beagle.

Books , Time

“All we saw was that Time is taller than Space is wide.
That's why we got bound to a round desert island,
'neath the sky where our sailors have gone.
Have they drowned, in those windy highlands?
Highlands away, my John.”

Joanna Newsom

Waltz Of The 101st Lightborne
Divers https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Divers_(Joanna_Newsom_album) (2015)

Time

“As the day is long,
so the well runs dry,
and we came to see Time is taller
than Space is wide.
And we bade goodbye
to the Great Divide:
found unlimited simulacreage to colonize!”

Joanna Newsom

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

Time

“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.”

Joanna Newsom

Autumn
Have One On Me (2010)

Age , Lying , Gauge , Change

“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

“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

“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

“I don't necessarily see the elements that I invoke on the cover and in the songs as being in binary opposition. I know certain binary tensions emerge between these elements, but a lot of times they're more like archetypal elements; these free-standing, huge forces. Mortality, standing alone, as a thing; as opposed to, "Over here's life; over here's death. Here's bad luck, but here's blessing and redemption. Here's water; here's fire." Certainly those things come up again and again in the songs, but it's not intentional, and probably has more to do with the fact that those things emerge in real life, without any effort on our part whatsoever, than they are derived from any classical tradition. I think classicism in general might reflect more closely the natural order of human life, while postmodernism is somehow removed from the natural order, more cerebral and sterile, removed from real life on some level. So what seems like classicism in some of these songs might be just what I view as an accurate reflection of real life on this planet.”

Joanna Newsom

Interview with Pitchfork (2006)

Life , Death , Bad luck , Nature

“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

Have One On Me
Have One On Me (2010)

World , Time , Reading