Abigail Washburn Quotes
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I would still describe China as a vast, invigorating puzzle that will never make sense to my western upbringing.
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In some ways, in the U.S. we don't know how to be. I think in a lot of ways America is about liberation and about change and progressive human relations. And because of that, I feel like that we're confused about who we're supposed to be and what it is that's supposed to satisfy us and make us feel fulfilled.
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You can enjoy many different types of music. I think that's something more Americans should think about.
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I do get around. Geographically, that is.
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When I first started playing the banjo and miraculously fell into a record deal in Nashville, TN, there was a period when I didn't go to China. It hurt. Like a pain in my gut... that pain you feel when you know it's time to connect with your parents or your God or your child or your past or your future... and you don't do it.
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In China, I realized that if you visit often enough and learn the language, you will be assimilated, but you'll still be kept at arm's length; you'll always be looked on as a foreigner.
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I do see music as complete refuge. It's a universal home, complete common ground between everyone; it comes from a place that has no nation and no boundaries around it.
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I feel like the one insight that's extremely comforting to me about the world is that we all share the same pool of emotion that we draw from.
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I've noticed that the more I open up, the more I learn.
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China was the first time I truly felt like an outsider. I fell in love with the process of trying to become intimate with the culture.
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Martin Luther King's 'I Have a Dream' speech always sends me down some path, some trajectory of some creative idea.