There is an assumption that if you're young and pretty, you will get all these opportunities that are way beyond your musical foundation. — Esperanza Spalding Copy Share Image
If you don't already know about jazz music, how would you be exposed? How would get an opportunity to find out if it spoke to you? If you get exposed to it enough, you might find a taste for it. — Esperanza Spalding Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Genre boundaries are good for marketing but they all but disappear when you're a player. — Esperanza Spalding Copy Share Image
I like to read, and I like dance. I don't dance, but I like to see other people dance. — Esperanza Spalding Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
When I read, you know, a rough neighborhood of Portland, I'm like - what? - they didn't have kombucha bars there? — Esperanza Spalding Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
