Quotes by Esperanza Spalding

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.

Frustration

Levels

Thinking

I am insubordinate by nature. I can’t help it.

Helping

I Can

I did grow up in a rough neighborhood in Portland, which is an abstract concept for anybody who’s rolled through Portland because now it looks like a TV set, literally.

Growing Up

Looks

Portland

I fear that I won’t get better and that I won’t have time to practice. To be called a “jazz musician” – it’s a big responsibility.

Get Better

Practice

Responsibility

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.

Culture

Music Is

Thinking

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.

People

Practice

Writing

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.

Being Real

Being Yourself

Thinking

It’s a pity 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.

Art

Chance

Fit

It’s weird sometimes to have people not see me or see what I do.

People

Sometimes

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

Influence

Jazz

Melting

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Art

Attitude

Bars

Being Real

Being Yourself

Benefits

Care

Chance

Culture

Doing You

Fearless

Fit

Foundation

Frustration

Get Better

Grace

Growing Up

Grows

Heart

Helping

I Can

Ideas

Influence

Islands

Jazz

Jazz Music

Levels

Light

Looks

Marketing

Mean

Melting

Men

Mind

Music

Music Is

Musical

Musician

Names

Needs

Neighborhood

Nuggets

Opportunity

People

Play

Portland

Practice

Radio

Reach Out

Responsibility

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Quotes by Esperanza Spalding

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.

I am insubordinate by nature. I can’t help it.

I did grow up in a rough neighborhood in Portland, which is an abstract concept for anybody who’s rolled through Portland because now it looks like a TV set, literally.

I fear that I won’t get better and that I won’t have time to practice. To be called a “jazz musician” – it’s a big responsibility.

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.

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.

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.

It’s a pity 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.

It’s weird sometimes to have people not see me or see what I do.

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

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