Esperanza Spalding quotes

You can grow up with literally nothing and you don't suffer if you know you're loved and valued. (Esperanza Spalding)
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. View quote
Esperanza Spalding
It's a pity that if someone who has a really profoundly potent art to share chooses not to or doesn't fit into this very thin slice of what's desirable and marketable, chances are the public will never get a chance to hear what they're doing. View quote
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Jazz has always been a melting pot of influences and I plan to incorporate them all. View quote
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I am insubordinate by nature. I can't help it. View quote
Esperanza Spalding
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. View quote
Esperanza Spalding
The benefit of the radio is, something beyond your realm of knowledge can surprise you, can enter your realm of knowledge. View quote
Esperanza Spalding
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. View quote
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There is an assumption that if you're young and pretty, you will get all these opportunities that are way beyond your musical foundation. View quote
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Alchemy and magic are about how mundane, benign, and abundant materials can have an effect that is greater than the sum of their parts. To me, creativity is alchemy. View quote
Esperanza Spalding
I want to have a beneficial effect on your physiology, but it's not my business what happens after that...It's my gift to you. (Esperanza Spalding)
...There's no secret, no shortcut. Once you accept that being a writer or a creator is just really hard and takes a lot of hours of slogging through crappy first drafts, you just keep producing, and then you turn around and it's done. That's the magic. View quote
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...There's two sides of the coin: One where people don't expect you to do anything and won't let you do anything because they think you don't know how, and then the other side is when you're fucking up but they won't tell you because you're a girl. Then you don't learn. View quote
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If you don't already know about jazz music, how would you be exposed? How would get an opportunity to find out if it spoke to you? If you get exposed to it enough, you might find a taste for it. View quote
Esperanza Spalding
I think there's so much negative influence on children in school settings. It becomes learning by rote to pass a test. It's not contextualized. View quote
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