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The 21st Century has begun as an era of uncertainty, with a heightened focus on security and public safety. ↗

— Gavin Newsom

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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

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

— Gavin Newsom

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We recognize that the arts are an essential part of San Francisco's cultural vitality. ↗

— Gavin Newsom

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I would happy for someone to download my music. ↗

— Joanna Newsom

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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

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

— Joanna Newsom

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

— Joanna Newsom

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I can't play my songs on the smaller harp. I have a Celtic harp. I can't do the key changes. ↗

— Joanna Newsom

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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

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