Esperanza Spalding Quotes

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

Esperanza Spalding

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• We worked on solving the problem of voice communications in a noisy military environment. We established military codes that are highly audible and invented selection tests for personnel who had a superior ability to recognize sound in a noisy background.

  

  M. H. Abrams
  • Problem
  • Environment
  • Military

• When I was younger, I was fascinated by David Bowie, for example. he had created an entire myth around himself. It was as important as his music.

  

  Lars von Trier
  • Music
  • Important
  • Example

• Our problem is not adopting reforms, which we will do without question. It is not reaching an objective, which we will meet. But it is finding an end to the recession.

  

  Yannis Stournaras
  • Question
  • Problem
  • End

• My sister, singer Jessie Ware, and I are always exchanging music. We brainstormed her wedding playlist for months.

  

  Hannah Ware
  • Music
  • Sister
  • Wedding

• From a very young age, music was very much in my house. I would sit with my mom, with the old LPs, listening to The Beatles and Carly Simon and Lionel Richie. The old LPs used to have the lyrics. From there, I would put on dance and music displays for my family, just to entertain them and make people laugh and smile.

  

  Lara Pulver
  • People
  • Music
  • Family

• I'm in fact Australian but my mother's English so I've got no problem playing a domineering English woman.

  

  Jacki Weaver
  • Mother
  • Problem
  • Woman

• The problem is too often they are boring, and boring in a meeting happens for the same reason as in a book or movie - when there is not enough compelling tension. Meetings should be intense.

  

  Patrick Lencioni
  • Book
  • Movie
  • Problem

• I joined the Madras Christian College but dropped out after three months. Telugu music director Ramesh Naidu asked me to assist him, and I did so for over a year. I did think of rejoining college, but by then, I was discovering the musician in me. I worked with Illaya Raja and Raj Koti and soon shifted to commercials. This led to movie offers.

  

  A. R. Rahman
  • Music
  • Movie
  • College

• The problem is not the occupation, but how people deal with it.

  

  Bashar al-Assad
  • People
  • Problem
  • How

• We are neurologically hardwired to seek out people like ourselves. We start forming cliques as soon as we're old enough to know what acceptance feels like. We bond together based on anything that we can - music preference, race, gender, the block that we grew up on.

  

  iO Tillett Wright
  • People
  • Up
  • Music

• My father's music gives hope to people and also inspires them to break the bonds of injustice and to be positive in life. I've seen that everywhere I go, especially in poor countries and poor neighborhoods.

  

  Ziggy Marley
  • People
  • Life
  • Music

• The academic area of new music or modern music festivals is not something which attracts me at all.

  

  Gavin Bryars
  • Music
  • Me
  • New

• A lot of the lessons that are taught in football will promote success in anything you get into after football; for me, it just happens to be music. Being disciplined. Good character. Trying to do the right thing, and working hard.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • Good
  • Music
  • Trying

• People used to say my music was too difficult or too obscure, and I never set out to be difficult or obscure. I just set out to write what I felt as honestly as I could, and I am delighted when other people feel a part of themselves in the music.

  

  Leonard Cohen
  • People
  • Music

• I don't love the whole Hollywood mentality, but I do love the weather and how motivated everyone is around here. It motivates me to make fun music. I'm an East Coaster - I'm from New Jersey, so I'll probably feel like that forever.

  

  Charlie Puth
  • Music
  • Fun
  • Forever

• When I'm actually getting off the bus, I still have my gospel playing. That's the way-to-the-game kind of music.

  

  Colin Kaepernick
  • Music
  • Game

• I'm not a very spiritual guy when it comes to music. I remember hearing Carlos Santana say that angels helped him write his songs. And I thought, 'Really, angels?'

  

  Chris Isaak
  • Music
  • Remember
  • Guy

• If you grow up playing in church, it removes a lot of the boundaries that other musicians might have, growing up with sheet music or whatever.

  

  Anderson Paak
  • Up
  • Music
  • Growing

• In some ways, it is difficult for contemporary composers to find an audience. Both men and women would love a culture that embraced and hungered for new music, as they did in the Classical period. I tell my students that they should just keep writing, write what pleases you, and don't worry about what people or critics may think about your music.

  

  Barbara Harbach
  • People
  • Music
  • Love

• As I look out there and see the culture of baseball, a lot of blacks and Latins, it's given me a lot of joy to know that Jackie started that. If Jackie hadn't come in '47, me and Ron Santo wouldn't have played in Double-A and all those years in the big leagues.

  

  Billy Williams
  • Culture
  • Joy
  • Baseball

• The wind, one brilliant day, called to my soul with an odor of jasmine. "In return for the odor of my jasmine, I'd like all the odor of your roses." "I have no roses; all the flowers in my garden are dead." "Well then, I'll take the withered petals and the yellow leaves and the waters of the fountain." the wind left. And I wept. And I said to myself: "What have you done with the garden that was entrusted to you?

  

  Antonio Machado
  • Done
  • Soul
  • Wind

• But 'Playboy' was liberating. I was drawn to it and went for it full throttle.

  

  LeRoy Neiman

• My own mother was a housewife all her life. And yet it's turned out that I've hired a lot of women for top jobs, and they've been among my best people. Often, in fact, they are far more effective than the men around them.

  

  Donald Trump
  • People
  • Life
  • Men

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

  

  Esperanza Spalding
  • Music
  • Problem
  • Jazz