Esperanza Spalding Quotes

You don't have to be fearless to do anything; you can be scared out of your mind. 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.

Esperanza Spalding

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• Scared
• Fearless
• Jazz Musician

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• I approach these people from a standpoint of love. How were they loved? How do they love? What's going on in their heart? There's that that I think about with every role.

  

  Parker Posey
  • People
  • Heart
  • Think

• To make money, I did portraits . The truth is so bizarre! I'm kind of embarrassed. I was like a 19th-century pirate painter. I'd say, 'Your mom would love a painting of you!' A salesman! I'd hawk paintings.

  

  Taylor Negron
  • Money
  • Truth
  • Mom

• We did a lot of high school productions. My first was 'Twelfth Night.' I played Viola. We did 'Much Ado About Nothing' and 'Taming of the Shrew,' and a lot of musicals: 'The Wiz,' 'Bye Bye Birdie,' 'Oliver.'

  

  Yvonne Strahovski
  • School
  • High
  • Night

• I would love to do a film with a lot of humor in it: a comedy with pain instead of a painful film with some comedy.

  

  Randa Haines
  • Comedy
  • Pain
  • Film

• I'm a dilettante. My governing word is 'curiosity.'

  

  Ian Hacking
  • Word
  • Curiosity
  • Governing

• Well, we don't take money from people and then show the product. It has to be a product that we like anyway, and that's true for all five of us, which is one of the really nice things about the way we make the show.

  

  Ted Allen
  • People
  • Money
  • True

• People with advantages are loath to believe that they just happen to be people with advantages.

  

  C. Wright Mills
  • People
  • Believe
  • Happen

• Even in the tough times, He's still a good God.

  

  Victoria Osteen
  • Good
  • God
  • Tough Times

• The gap between being a bad person and being a criminal is often wide.

  

  Adam Cohen
  • Bad
  • Person
  • Often

• And why, by the way, did it take Arabs to do what people here should have done a long time ago?

  

  Ward Churchill
  • People
  • Time
  • Long

• Whate'erI may have been, or am, doth rest betweenHeaven and myself; I shall not choose a mortalTo be my mediator.

  

  Lord Byron
  • May
  • Rest

• I guess something that I've noticed from American acts who had success in touring is more of an explanation as to their music. Which is I think quite funny. I think British acts might like to leave more to the imagination - maybe a bit more obscure perhaps - a bit more shy.

  

  Ben Lovett Mumford & Sons
  • Music
  • American
  • Success

• We never do the same set twice... We play for at least two and a half hours, sometimes longer, so there's a lot of songs from all the records. And we know there's a stable we as fans would want to hear, so we always give them, then we change up a bunch of songs and throw in a couple new ones.

  

  David Bryan Bon Jovi
  • Up
  • Couple

• I'm not going to give up doing interesting things. I'm going to do it as long as I possibly can and hopefully have longevity in this business.

  

  Jessica Biel
  • Up
  • Long
  • Business

• It'd be great to do some other TV. 'Breaking Bad' is definitely my home, but I'd love to have a nice hiatus gig, like a recurring role. Or to do a good film. I'd like to do a Woody Allen movie. I really didn't have a plan, and that's okay with me.

  

  Betsy Brandt
  • Good
  • Great
  • Home

• When I do comedy, it's not like I'm trying to be funny for folks; I look for the honesty in it. With James Early in 'Dreamgirls,' it was the honesty of it: it was the reality of the moment. You know, I don't know what makes me play sometimes. I really don't. I just do what I do. And that's what I did for 'Sliders,' and that's how I got the job.

  

  Cleavant Derricks
  • Trying
  • Job
  • Reality

• The Cool Kids are Chicago. Me being from Michigan is a part of that dynamic.

  

  Evan Ingersoll
  • Kids
  • Cool
  • Chicago

• I believe evidence is overwhelming that chronic Lyme is a terrible, overwhelming disease, and we need to find ways to treat this. To say otherwise is an inaccurate and unscientific opinion.

  

  Chris Smith
  • Believe
  • Opinion

• I feel like I'll never get over red carpets. They're so bizarre and awkward.

  

  Adam Driver
  • Never
  • Red
  • Awkward

• I'm content with making records, but I don't want to be doing the same thing all the time.

  

  John Cale
  • Time

• If you have been vaccinated for polio, mumps, measles, chicken pox, hepatitis, or rabies, it may be too late for you to stand your ethical ground: You have already benefited from fetal-tissue research. This is, after all, a practice that's been legal since the 1930s.

  

  Katha Pollitt
  • May
  • Practice
  • Research

• If I was a marginal guy or a practice squad player or a career-long special teamer, you take a hell of a lot less hits in those roles.

  

  Chris Borland
  • Long
  • Guy
  • Career

• Especially good spirits might be brought to the Land of Darkness only briefly or not at all.

  

  Aaron Shepard
  • Darkness
  • Spirits
  • Brought

• You don't have to be fearless to do anything; you can be scared out of your mind. 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.

  

  Esperanza Spalding
  • Practice
  • Scared
  • Fearless