Esperanza Spalding Quotes
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.
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The whole point of music is being able to share your story. I've been songwriting for a long time, usually while on the road, as a way to get my feelings out.
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When you're making a pilot, what you're mostly thinking is, 'Please let this be a real job, please.'
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My own philanthropic efforts have always included an educational element, whether it's expanding opportunities to educate a promising mind or extending the brain's ability to learn.
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When you start to live your dream, it's not quite what you thought it was because there is a lot of overwhelming stuff that comes on top of it, and you have to figure it all out.
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I've had a lot of struggles and I would be in a lot of trouble, I think, if I wasn't a Christian.
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Be sure that you go to the author to get at his meaning, not to find yours.
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I love the American dream. I feel this is the place I was supposed to be in. It's beautiful. I love it.
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I remember listening to Miles Davis in the car with my dad. I had just done my Grade 5 piano exam, and I was quite cocky. I said, 'It sounds like he's played the wrong note there.' I remember the look of horror on my dad's face, and thinking, 'Wow, I have to figure out why that is not acceptable.'
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My next baby will be my new record.
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I don't really have any ditties left in me anymore.
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I'm shocked at being recognized. You go to places you don't think you would be and still, you are. Taxi drivers often recognise me... but I haven't got a free ride yet.
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I would be a huge hypocrite if I didn't tell you that at one time in my life I thought the way that you made music was you got on a major label and you got famous.
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Part of me is afraid to let go of this other thing, which was so hugely successful. But on the other hand, I have to move ahead, or else my feet are stuck in the cement. I feel like I'm capable of writing other kinds of music, and I'm at a transitional time in my life.
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You want a hero in the music world? James Brown. He brought a feeling to music without really using words. He's just famous for his sound.
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Imagine ... Imagine no religion.
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You know, Ms. Morgan, that was your mother you just hammered," Mr. Solomon said.
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The calculus of utility aims at supplying the ordinary wants of man at the least cost of labour.
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When I present or speak, I write the slides myself. And regarding time, I would like to be able to publish more than I do.
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So you had to rev your engines, to beat the Russians and I think more than anything, if the Soviet team would win, or the Soviet athletes would win, you would see and hear and read about that. Quite frequently. So they would make a big issue of it.
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I do whatever is necessary in order to maintain the equanimity we all need to withstand the disappointment and rejection that are the lot of every writer, no matter where we are in our careers.
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Most human beings are quite likable if you don't see too much of them.
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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.
