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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

#bringing #eyes #foot #generating #improving

The value of an arts education is widely accepted, especially in California. ↗

— Gavin Newsom

#arts #arts education #california #education #especially

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

#am #bring #completely #consciously #different

I am consciously trying not to make it sound Celtic or African. ↗

— Joanna Newsom

#am #celtic #consciously #i #i am

I am not doing something that it is experimental music in relation to classical music. ↗

— Joanna Newsom

#classical #classical music #doing #experimental #i

I am producing sounds that people are not used to hearing from the harp. ↗

— Joanna Newsom

#harp #hearing #i #i am #people

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

#album #albums #becomes #bloated #definitely

I have writing songs on my own for about six years. ↗

— Joanna Newsom

#i #my own #own #six #songs

Yeah, my dream would be to work for 6 months and then have 6 months to play, just snowboarding, surfing, and going to cool places to listen and be alone and kinda chill out. ↗

— Marc Newson

#chill #chill out #cool #dream #going

My first two books are out of print and, okay, they can sleep there comfortably. It's early work, derivative work. ↗

— Mary Oliver

#comfortably #derivative #early #early work #first