Top 91 Quotes About Newsom
#1. The six-man inquest jury assembled was composed of local residents, men whose lives strikingly resembled that of the murdered Robert Newsom.
Melton A. McLaurin
#2. I'm a big Johnny Cash girl. And I love singers like Laura Marling and Joanna Newsom.
Imogen Poots
#3. The way that words fit together is always interesting to me. I love words.
Joanna Newsom
#4. There are some mornings when the sky looks like a road.
Joanna Newsom
#5. Accessing capital to start a business can be a daunting process, especially for entrepreneurs who start out with a great idea, but have no real familiarity with the business world.
Gavin Newsom
#6. Be willing to make bold decisions and be willing to make glorious mistakes. Learn from your mistakes, but you've got to be willing to make them first.
Gavin Newsom
#7. As Mayor of San Francisco, I will work hard to ensure that, in the event of natural or man-made disasters, San Franciscans are prepared and our City is protected.
Gavin Newsom
#8. Maybe a good goal would be to just at least always try to create something good. Like something that is connected to love in some way. Like the [musical] equivalent of ... you can make a decision to be kind. You can make a decision to greet people kindly and make jokes with people and connect.
Joanna Newsom
#9. I had known that people would probably have strange reactions to my voice, because I have kind of an unwieldy, difficult voice, but I never thought that anybody would have a problem with the harp. I just assumed ... C'mon, it's a beautiful instrument.
Joanna Newsom
#10. The jobs in the greatest demand in the future don't yet exist and will require workers to use technologies that have not yet been invented to solve problems that we don't yet even know are problems.
Gavin Newsom
#11. The value of an arts education is widely accepted, especially in California.
Gavin Newsom
#12. 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.
Joanna Newsom
#13. Historically, San Franciscans have not valued street trees as much as other communities have.
Gavin Newsom
#14. It's the old adage, 'Nothing ventured, nothing gained, ... While this is unique, we consider ourselves unique.
Gavin Newsom
#15. I am consciously not trying to bring in World Music elements. The ways that I work and feel are completely different in how they sound than someone playing the Kora in Africa would play it.
Joanna Newsom
#16. San Francisco has long been a leader in the arts, nurturing generations of painters, sculptors, poets, novelists, playwrights, film-makers, and performing artists and innovators of every kind.
Gavin Newsom
#17. If the media is sending girls the message that their value lies in their bodies, this can only leave them feeling disempowered and distract them from making a difference and becoming leaders.
Jennifer Siebel Newsom
#18. You should listen to a lot of different music.
Joanna Newsom
#19. If I ever met Dolly Parton for sure, I would just not be able to say anything. I love her.
Joanna Newsom
#20. San Francisco businesses face many challenges, including high rents, regulatory burdens, and the rising cost of workers compensation insurance and employee health plans.
Gavin Newsom
#21. I wasn't born of a whistle or milked from a thistle at twilight
No I was all horns and thorns sprung out fully formed, knock-kneed and upright.
Joanna Newsom
#22. I've been unaware of how people react to the instrument. People have ideas of what a harp is supposed to sound like, and a lot of them are negative ideas.
Joanna Newsom
#23. Involvement in the arts engages kids in their community, improves self-esteem, reclaims at-risk youth, and builds the creative skills that are required of a 21st century workforce.
Gavin Newsom
#24. Cultural tourism surveys consistently rate San Francisco's art industry as a core reason for visiting.
Gavin Newsom
#25. Street and park trees provide tremendous benefits to cities.
Gavin Newsom
#26. City government can and must help San Franciscans prepare for emergencies in order to avoid tragedy where possible and minimize loss of life and property when emergencies occur.
Gavin Newsom
#27. If you distill the essence of everything, what life is about, every single one of us is given a short moment in time on this planet, and we all have one universal need and desire, and that is to be loved and to love.
Gavin Newsom
#28. I wanted to write songs which I think is a different thing. I wanted to write music that is informed by folk music. The chord progressions are obvious references.
Joanna Newsom
#29. I can't play my songs on the smaller harp. I have a Celtic harp. I can't do the key changes.
Joanna Newsom
#30. I did spend a year in high school being obsessed with Fleetwood Mac.
Joanna Newsom
#31. I started playing harp about fourteen years ago.
Joanna Newsom
#32. It's totally different. I usually don't tell people about the Pleased if they know me from the harp. And if they are there to see the Pleased, I usually don't tell them about the harp. I am nervous that these people will expect something similar.
Joanna Newsom
#33. I have writing songs on my own for about six years.
Joanna Newsom
#34. It broke my heart when I learned the moon had been passing the sun's light off as its own.
Joanna Newsom
#35. As Mayor, I will lead city government, businesses, and community groups to support innovative projects that will make San Francisco streets and public places vibrant and healthy.
Gavin Newsom
#36. I recorded harp first or singing first. I recorded it all together. Part of the reason is that I don't know how to play the songs without also singing. I forget how they progress. I don't think that any of them are verse, chorus, verse, and so on. They are not simple.
Joanna Newsom
#37. Livable neighborhoods with a vibrant street life will stimulate our economic life as well.
Gavin Newsom
#38. People are often afraid for me. They think that I am going to break. I can make it through a set.
Joanna Newsom
#39. The moment of your greatest joy sustains:
Not axe nor hammer
Tumor, tremor
Can take it away, and it remains
It remains
Joanna Newsom
#40. I am consciously trying not to make it sound Celtic or African.
Joanna Newsom
#41. We are blessed and sustained by what is not said
Joanna Newsom
#42. I played piano for about two years when I was a kid. I didn't play long enough to be really great.
Joanna Newsom
#43. I have a recording that I did of instrumental songs.
Joanna Newsom
#44. The arts give us our identity as a community; they also draw new people, fresh visions, and renewable economic opportunity to our community.
Gavin Newsom
#45. 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
#46. San Francisco lags behind other communities in providing a vital, vibrant and ecologically sustainable urban canopy, as well as open space in the city.
Gavin Newsom
#47. You'll know what kind of bird I am when I fly over you.
Tommy Newsom
#48. We recognize that the arts are an essential part of San Francisco's cultural vitality.
Gavin Newsom
#49. I am producing sounds that people are not used to hearing from the harp.
Joanna Newsom
#50. As Mayor, I will use my experience to make San Francisco a place where small businesses can thrive.
Gavin Newsom
#51. The so-called positive press has in some ways been more difficult to swallow than the negative.
Joanna Newsom
#52. Failure isn't something to be embarassed about; it's just proof that you're pushing your limits, trying new things, daring to innovate.
Gavin Newsom
#53. I didn't really know a lot of the history when I was younger. I didn't realize that the harp is coded in such a specific way in musical circles. It's kind of this society instrument because of its history as a young woman's parlor instrument.
Joanna Newsom
#55. I didn't sing for years and years, but I started playing harp when I was maybe 9 or 10. I had actually wanted to play for years leading up to that, but no teacher in our little town would take me on as a student, because I was too young.
Joanna Newsom
#56. There's something fundamental to the harp that has retained its appeal my whole life. It's an instrument I am just in love with.
Joanna Newsom
#57. I never thought people would be mortally offended by the sounds I was making.
Joanna Newsom
#58. As Mayor, I will fully support my Arts Commission and its professional selection committees so that they can commission a full range of public art that is daring and, when appropriate, daringly traditional.
Gavin Newsom
#59. The signifieds butt-heads with the signifiers
and we all fall down slackjawed to marvel at words
while across the sky sheet impossible birds
in a steady illiterate movement homewards.
Joanna Newsom
#60. I wasn't interested in writing music that wasn't beautiful for me to listen to.
Joanna Newsom
#61. As mayor of San Francisco, I will provide the vision and work hard to make San Francisco a beautiful, well-planned city with excellent housing and transportation options.
Gavin Newsom
#62. What a woman does is open doors. And it is not a question of locking or unlocking.
Joanna Newsom
#63. Never get so attached to a poem that you forget truth that lacks lyricism.
Joanna Newsom
#64. I can understand someone not liking the voice or the songs.
Joanna Newsom
#65. Like any small business owner, I experienced the pressures of building a company from the ground up - developing a business plan, balancing the books, meeting payroll and building a customer base.
Gavin Newsom
#66. People in San Francisco and the East Bay have shown interest, done interviews, and have come to shows. I guess that the news travels fast out of this island that we are on.
Joanna Newsom
#67. Well, yeah, I wanted to resist the urge to thicken everything up with instrumentation, because I just felt like I was interested in seeing how the songs did on their own.
Joanna Newsom
#68. I would happy for someone to download my music.
Joanna Newsom
#69. We can build new housing while preserving the quality and character of adjacent residential districts and ensuring infill development strengthens the surrounding neighborhood.
Gavin Newsom
#70. San Franciscans know we live in the most beautiful city in the world, a jewel on the edge of the Golden Gate.
Gavin Newsom
#71. I don't think I'm abnormal and I think that lets people down.
Joanna Newsom
#72. But living in uncertain times does not mean San Franciscans must live in fear.
Gavin Newsom
#73. San Francisco can no longer afford to be a city divided between downtown and neighborhoods, with a downtown that becomes a ghost town when workers go home for the evening.
Gavin Newsom
#74. I am not doing something that it is experimental music in relation to classical music.
Joanna Newsom
#75. I don't look at people's expressions, because I still get nervous when I play, especially when I first put the harp up there. I just try to tune - it takes me a half-hour to tune, and I get nervous if I look at anybody when I do it.
Joanna Newsom
#76. During the 1990s, San Francisco lived through one of the most intense economic booms of its history.
Gavin Newsom
#77. I give away CDs at shows if someone wants a CD but doesn't have any money. I wouldn't want to do that forever.
Joanna Newsom
#78. 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
#79. In the sinking sand,
where we've come to rest,
have I had a hand in your loneliness?
Joanna Newsom
#80. The very first Walnut Whales recording was recorded just a few weeks after I had started singing, out of the blue, started singing. And the voice, you can hear how uncomfortable I am with it, and how terrified I am with it.
Joanna Newsom
#81. It's valid that the Strokes and the Pleased have been influenced by some of the same bands. But it's invalid in the sense that we listen to the Strokes and try to sounds like them. I think that they are a good band.
Joanna Newsom
#82. The fire breather is beneath the clover, and beneath his breathing there is cold clay forever
Joanna Newsom
#83. I want to make music that somehow connects to the things that I love in America music.
Joanna Newsom
#84. Around eighth grade I decided I wanted to be a composer and that's what I went to college for. Just a few years back, I switched out of composition and into creative writing so I could work with words.
Joanna Newsom
#85. I definitely don't subscribe to the theory that more instruments, or more vocal tracks, harmony, or double tracking the voice, is a good thing. People do their early albums very stripped down, then each album becomes bloated.
Joanna Newsom
#86. We deserve to know light. And grow evermore lighter and lighter.
Joanna Newsom
#87. I have a deep rooted folk sensibility that I can't get away from completely.
Joanna Newsom
#88. The arts can play a vital role in revitalizing neighborhoods, using and improving vacant space, bringing new jobs and new sense of opportunity, and improving public safety by generating more foot traffic and more eyes on the street.
Gavin Newsom
#89. The 21st Century has begun as an era of uncertainty, with a heightened focus on security and public safety.
Gavin Newsom
#90. I have a voice that's obviously untrained - and I think untrainable - so I kind of secreted it away for a long time. Actually, I would write songs with lyrics when I was younger, but I would just sing in my head.
Joanna Newsom
#91. An arts education helps build academic skills and increase academic performance, while also providing alternative opportunities to reward the skills of children who learn differently.
Gavin Newsom
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