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  • It broke my heart when I learned the moon had been passing the sun’s light off as its own.

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

    "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • 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.

    Interview with Andy Battaglia, www.avclub.com. October 13, 2004.
  • You should listen to a lot of different music.

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  • I have a recording that I did of instrumental songs.

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  • 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.

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  • 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.

    Interview with Andy Battaglia, www.avclub.com. October 13, 2004.
  • 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.

    Sydney Morning Herald, October 10, 2005.
  • I can understand someone not liking the voice or the songs.

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  • I want to make music that somehow connects to the things that I love in America music.

    "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • 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.

    "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • I am always trying to write.

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  • If I ever met Dolly Parton for sure, I would just not be able to say anything. I love her.

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

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  • 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.

    Interview with Andy Battaglia, www.avclub.com. October 13, 2004.
  • 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.

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  • I never thought people would be mortally offended by the sounds I was making.

    Interview with Andy Battaglia, www.avclub.com. October 13, 2004.
  • I can bear a lot but not that pall

    Song: Kingfisher, Album: Have One on Me, 2010
  • We deserve to know light. And grow evermore lighter and lighter.

    Song: Sawdust and Diamonds, Album: Ys, 2006
  • 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.

    Interview with Andy Battaglia, www.avclub.com. October 13, 2004.
  • 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.

    "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • I started playing harp about fourteen years ago.

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  • And a thimble's worth of milky moon Can touch hearts larger than a thimble.

    Song: Bridges and Balloons, Album: The Milk-Eyed Mender, 2004
  • 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.

    Source: www.avclub.com
  • I did spend a year in high school being obsessed with Fleetwood Mac.

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  • Families of privilege and money would have harps in their parlors, and their cultured daughters would learn to play. It's got such a strange history. But that wasn't the context that I learned it in, so the inherent friction between that history and the more humanist folk-y history wasn't in my conscience at all.

    Interview with Andy Battaglia, www.avclub.com. October 13, 2004.
  • I would happy for someone to download my music.

    "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • 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.

    Interview with Andy Battaglia, www.avclub.com. October 13, 2004.
  • 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.

    Interview with Andy Battaglia, www.avclub.com. October 13, 2004.
  • 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.

    "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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