Esperanza Spalding Quotes

I focused primarily on being an instrumentalist and studying music and on my primary means of expression: composing and playing.

Esperanza Spalding

• Music
• Expression
• Focused

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• Don't let nobody tell you that you can't do it. Love what you do until you don't love it anymore. Nothing's impossible.

  

  Fetty Wap
  • Love
  • For Her
  • Impossible

• A lot of people may know my face and know that I'm a good player on the football field, but they probably don't really know me as a person.

  

  LaDainian Tomlinson
  • People
  • Good
  • May

• There's no regrets for me.

  

  Adam Lambert
  • Me
  • Regrets
  • No Regrets

• It's important for people to understand where things come or what they represent.

  

  Paloma Elsesser
  • People
  • Important
  • Where

• When I saw rappers in the '90s cameo in films - all of those '90s rappers - it seemed like whenever you chucked a rapper in a film, they could just act. It seemed like all rappers could act.

  

  Watkin Tudor Jones
  • You
  • Film
  • Act

• I've never seen anything so abhorrent in my life as Harry Reid. He's an equal opportunity basher. He goes after everybody, and I think it has been so, frankly, disgusting.

  

  Dana Perino
  • Life
  • Opportunity
  • My Life

• Well, they just don't know anything else except that one form of their business, acting, and they don't really want to learn any other part of it, or they would. Directing and producing and putting a show together is very creative, for me.

  

  Jackie Cooper
  • Business
  • Together
  • Creative

• Reducing caloric intake is the only proven method of extending life. If caloric intake is reduced to 20 percent below maintenance, you can extend your lifespan considerably.

  

  S. Jay Olshansky
  • Life
  • You
  • Percent

• A woman always has her man, but the man unconsciously leans on his roots, his heritage. He feels like an orphan without his parents.

  

  Raj Kapoor
  • Parents
  • Man
  • Woman

• Obviously crime pays, or there'd be no crime.

  

  G. Gordon Liddy
  • Crime
  • Obviously
  • Pays

• While books expand horizons by exposing us to worlds outside our own, children also need to see themselves, their experiences and their cultures reflected in books they read. Unfortunately, for too many children, this is not the norm.

  

  Randi Weingarten
  • Children
  • See
  • Need

• I was just totally taken by Michael Jackson when I was a little kid, like everyone else.

  

  Karen O
  • Taken
  • Like
  • Kid

• Rap is just somebody getting something off his chest. That's all it is.

  

  Ice Cube
  • Rap
  • Something
  • Just

• I write exactly as I speak, so therefore I would not say any writer influenced me at all.

  

  Maeve Binchy

• I just feel like the songs I write lend themselves to this girl-power feeling, and those are the artists that I looked up to when I was younger.

  

  Charli XCX
  • Up
  • Power
  • Girl

• I shampoo and condition with Kerastase products but rarely brush it because I'm all about the Kate Moss bed-head look.

  

  Poppy Delevingne

• I struggle with candida - usually it manifests on the skin and can be so pesty, painful, and irritating! It also feeds off sugar and gluten and is nearly impossible to rid yourself of.

  

  Hannah Bronfman
  • Struggle

• I don't have the freaking energy to write a memo. I'm out there saving lives.

  

  Carmen Yulin Cruz
  • Energy

• Basically, in 'American Pie,' things are heading in the wrong direction. It is becoming less ideal, less idyllic. I don't know whether you consider that wrong or right, but it is a morality song in a sense.

  

  Don McLean
  • American
  • Song

• I'm a pretty plain-spoken guy.

  

  Larry Hogan
  • Guy
  • Pretty

• My definition of hip hop is taking elements from many other spheres of music to make hip hop. Whether it be breakbeat, whether it be the groove and grunt of James Brown or the pickle-pop sounds of Kraftwerk or Yellow Magic Orchestra, hip hop is also part of what they call hip-house now, or trip hop, or even parts of drum n' bass.

  

  Afrika Bambaataa
  • Music
  • House
  • Magic

• I think, for me anyway, music and film is where you can really transport yourself to another universe.

  

  Teresa Palmer
  • Music
  • Universe
  • Film

• I will never sign to a major record label again. If, by some mega fluke, a record of mine looked like it might break big, I'd try and do it via an indie or somehow license it. I'm not having my music owned by those corporate bastards again.

  

  Malcolm Wilson
  • Music
  • Try
  • Again

• I focused primarily on being an instrumentalist and studying music and on my primary means of expression: composing and playing.

  

  Esperanza Spalding
  • Music
  • Expression
  • Focused