Song Quotes by Abigail Washburn

8 Song quotes by Abigail Washburn

Abigail Washburn’s eight comments on song give a succinct look into her folk‑celtic sensibility. The compact collection serves as a handy starter for readers interested in her perspective.

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I believe in music because it has the power of change.

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One of my favorite albums in the world is Bruce Springsteen's 'Nebraska.' Each song has this very distinct character who has something…

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I really believe in the power of music.

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I reside in a new colony for the Chinese-singing banjo player, with a population of one. At least I have something I…

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'Halo' I wrote with my grandpa in his nursing home. When I went to visit him, he'd often comment on my halo.…

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I played piano and was always in the choir. I tried to play flute because all the pretty girls played flute.

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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…

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I tried to play flute because all the pretty girls played flute.

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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.

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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…

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

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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…

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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…

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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…

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

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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.

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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…

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

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

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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…

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I spent all of my twenties feeling very angsty about trying to make a difference. I wanted to establish a touring circuit that would…

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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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China was the first time I truly felt like an outsider. I fell in love with the process of trying to become intimate with…

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