Esperanza Spalding quotes
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“I’m not gonna sit around and waste my precious divine energy trying to explain and be ashamed of things you think are wrong with me.”
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“Jazz music just resonates with the frequency of me.”
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“I love people, and I love to be with people and to make music with people, but my natural state is to revert back to being by myself in my house, which is cool because thats where I practice and write and listen and study.”
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“I just think music is so intrinsically linked with images in the culture that we live in that youll be hard-pressed to have an experience with the music without a preconceived notion.”
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“For what I can imagine and feel and think and hear, I can hardly do anything on the acoustic bass. It used to be just pure frustration of imagining so much more and being able to get to a certain level of execution.”
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“The Czech ease has become my saving grace for traveling! Plus,with its light weight and small size, I save thousands of dollars every year in airline fees.”
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“Jazz has always been a melting pot of influences and I plan to incorporate them all.”
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“My name means 'hope' in Spanish and it's a name I want to live up to.”
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“The music that I make is pretty sincere; it's from my heart and I love it, and what just happened is more people have started to connect with my heart, and I haven't followed some kind of marketing scheme,”
-- Esperanza SpaldingSource : "Esperanza Spalding: Grammy Award 2011 Winner For Best New Artist", www.huffingtonpost.com. February 14, 2011.
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“People are more used to seeing men who are masters at an instrument than women. When people say, 'Oh, she plays like a dude,' it's usually dudes who are the ones saying it. They're saying, 'Oh, she's as good as us.' Of course, that's a stupid statement. It's totally stereotypical to say, 'We have an advantage on this, and if anyone else can do it well, it's only because they're like us.' I think more men are starting to learn that this attitude is totally hollow and based in imagination. As more women are involved in music, this kind of thing gets said less and less.”
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“You can grow up with literally nothing and you don’t suffer if you know you’re loved and valued,”
-- Esperanza SpaldingSource : "New Note" by John Colapinto, www.newyorker.com. March 15, 2010.
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“The benefit of the radio is, something beyond your realm of knowledge can surprise you, can enter your realm of knowledge.”
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