For most Americans, my Chinese music feels like a novelty and it's not what it is for me, — Abigail Washburn Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
My parents played the radio, but music was never an obsession or something that I thought I could call a career. — Abigail Washburn Copy Share Image
Martin Luther King's 'I Have a Dream' speech always sends me down some path, some trajectory of some creative idea. — Abigail Washburn Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
