Means Hope Quotes by Esperanza Spalding

Jazz music just resonates with the frequency of me.

— Esperanza Spalding

I think there's so much negative influence on children in school settings. It becomes learning by rote to pass a test. It's not contextualized.

— Esperanza Spalding

On nights that I'm feeling a need to stretch personally and artistically, I tend to put together outfits that are very quirky, mismatched and…

— Esperanza Spalding

Genre boundaries are good for marketing but they all but disappear when you're a player.

— Esperanza Spalding

I like to read, and I like dance. I don't dance, but I like to see other people dance.

— Esperanza Spalding

The music that I make is pretty sincere; it's from my heart and I love it, and what just happened is more people have…

— Esperanza Spalding

When I read, you know, a rough neighborhood of Portland, I'm like - what? - they didn't have kombucha bars there?

— Esperanza Spalding

There's the juiciest music that makes me so happy, music that I need on that deserted island when I'm stranded for the rest of…

— Esperanza Spalding

For what I can imagine and feel and think and hear, I can hardly do anything on the acoustic bass. It used to be…

— Esperanza Spalding

I love people, and I love to be with people and to make music with people, but my natural state is to revert back…

— Esperanza Spalding

I just think music is so intrinsically linked with images in the culture that we live in that youll be hard-pressed to have an…

— Esperanza Spalding

I grew up with an incredibly loving and supportive family that gave me the impression there were a lot of options for me out…

— Esperanza Spalding

It's weird sometimes to have people not see me or see what I do.

— Esperanza Spalding

Anything I do has to have integrity, so if you just want to make music, it's not difficult finding support. The hard part for…

— Esperanza Spalding

Jazz has always been a melting pot of influences and I plan to incorporate them all.

— Esperanza Spalding