Esperanza Spalding Quotes

• On nights that I’m feeling a need to stretch personally and artistically, I tend to put together outfits that are very quirky, mismatched and over-the-top eclectic.

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  Tags in Artistically, Quirky

• My earliest attempts at writing were when I was seven. I would sit at the piano and transcribe the songs I heard on the radio. I’d change little things in the music and write different lyrics.

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  Tags in Lyrics, Seven

• 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.

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  Tags in Chances, Desirable

• 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.

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  Topics in Opportunity

  Tags in Jazz, Spoke

• I write at the piano, so I write things that fit comfortably under my hands, and I’m not thinking in terms of any specific compositional methods. I’m just seeking sounds.

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  Tags in Seeking, Terms

• I just think music is so intrinsically linked with images in the culture that we live in that you’ll be hard-pressed to have an experience with the music without a preconceived notion.

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  Tags in Preconceived, Images

• 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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  Tags in Acoustic, Imagining

• Anything I do has to have integrity, so if you just want to make music, it’s not difficult finding support. The hard part for a publicist or manager is making a star.

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  Tags in Integrity, Publicist

• You can grow up with literally nothing and you don’t suffer if you know you’re loved and valued.

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  Tags in Suffer, Grow Up

• There’s enough time in the day: If you go to bed at 10 and start your day at 6, there’s a lot you can do in a day!

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  Tags in Sleep, Bed

• There is an assumption that if you’re young and pretty, you will get all these opportunities that are way beyond your musical foundation.

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  Tags in Assumption, Opportunities

• 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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  Topics in Knowledge

  Tags in Realm, Surprise

• Jazz has always been a melting pot of influences and I plan to incorporate them all.

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  Tags in Pot, Jazz

• 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.

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  Tags in Rote, Test

• I never think my music isn’t easy until I got to teach it to other people.

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  Tags in Thinking, My Life

• I like to read, and I like dance. I don’t dance, but I like to see other people dance.

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  Tags in Dance, Read

• I grew up with an incredibly loving and supportive family that gave me the impression there were a lot of options for me out there.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Impression, Options

• I don’t watch TV, I don’t spend time on the Internet, and I don’t party much. I don’t text very much, either.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Either, Party

• I always say that the problem with jazz accessibility is not the content of the music, it’s people’s ability to access it.

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  Topics in Ability

  Tags in Content, Access

• Genre boundaries are good for marketing but they all but disappear when you’re a player.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Boundaries, Disappear

Esperanza Spalding (21)

Birth:	18th October, 1984
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Bandleader, Bassist, Composer, Educator, Singer

About

Esperanza Spalding is an American jazz bassist, cellist and singer, who draws upon many genres in her own compositions. She has won three Grammy Awards, including the Grammy Award for Best New Artist at the 53rd Grammy Awards, making her the first jazz artist to win the award.

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