Always Quote by Abigail Washburn

I feel like my kind of music is a big pot of different spices. It's a soup with all kinds of ingredients in it.

— Abigail Washburn

I was born in Evanston, Illinois. I spent my elementary and part of my junior high school years in a D.C. suburb. And then…

— Abigail Washburn

I've noticed that the more I open up, the more I learn.

— Abigail Washburn

Is it an original idea? Or is it something where you're literally a creative collagist? You're taking pieces of the world that you see…

— Abigail Washburn

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…

— Abigail Washburn

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…

— Abigail Washburn

My parents played the radio, but music was never an obsession or something that I thought I could call a career.

— Abigail Washburn

Martin Luther King's 'I Have a Dream' speech always sends me down some path, some trajectory of some creative idea.

— Abigail Washburn

I'm no ethnomusicologist. There is a connection between the five-note scale used both in traditional Chinese music and the blues, but I don't really…

— Abigail Washburn

As a child, I went to peace and ERA marches on the back of my mom and grandmother. Through them I learned that I…

— Abigail Washburn

Outside your door, the world is waiting. Inside your heart, a voice is calling. The four corners of the world are watching. So travel,…

— Abigail Washburn

I sang in a reggae band. And then there was a soul band where I sang back-up vocals and some lead. And I was…

— Abigail Washburn