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…

— 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.…

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— Abigail Washburn

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

— Abigail Washburn

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

— 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…

— Abigail Washburn

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

— Abigail Washburn

I would still describe China as a vast, invigorating puzzle that will never make sense to my western upbringing.

— Abigail Washburn

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

— Abigail Washburn

U.S.-China relations doesn't need another lawyer.

— Abigail Washburn

In China, I realized that if you visit often enough and learn the language, you will be assimilated, but you'll still be…

— Abigail Washburn

Hogslop is the real deal groovilicious honkin old-time string band. Guaranteed old-time awesomeness with these fellas around!

— Abigail Washburn

My whole drive is to make sure that music is a common space where we search for beauty and share it. It…

— Abigail Washburn

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

— Abigail Washburn

I have a general sense of mission, and I intuitively know when something is influencing that mission. I think this is what…

— Abigail Washburn

In some ways, my most comfortable feeling has been that of being an outsider coming in, but over the years I've tired…

— Abigail Washburn

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

— Abigail Washburn

I really believe in the power of music.

— Abigail Washburn

I had no intention of becoming a performer, and yet under miraculous circumstances I was brought into the music industry fold. If…

— Abigail Washburn