Abigail Washburn Quotes

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• U.S.-China relations doesn't need another lawyer.
• Outside your door, the world is waiting. Inside your heart, a voice is calling. The four corners of the world are watching. So travel, daughter,…
• I tried to play flute because all the pretty girls played flute.
• For most Americans, my Chinese music feels like a novelty and it's not what it is for me,
• I reside in a new colony for the Chinese-singing banjo player, with a population of one. At least I have something I have to do…
• I'm, I guess you could say, the Chinese-speaking, banjo-picking girl.
• 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 around…
• Hogslop is the real deal groovilicious honkin old-time string band. Guaranteed old-time awesomeness with these fellas around!
• I've noticed that the more I open up, the more I learn.
• I believe in the old, because it shows us where we come from - where our souls have risen from. And I believe in the…
• One thing I carried my whole life, especially from my grandparents in Chicago, was a huge idealism for the world.
• As a child, I went to peace and ERA marches on the back of my mom and grandmother. Through them I learned that I wanted…
• Whenever I visited China in the past, the relationships always felt superficial; there was no time where I felt those moments of conflict and delight…
• I really believe in the power of music.
• My parents played the radio, but music was never an obsession or something that I thought I could call a career.
• 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 I…
• I do get around. Geographically, that is.
• I played piano and was always in the choir. I tried to play flute because all the pretty girls played flute.
• I believe in music because it has the power of change.
• I would still describe China as a vast, invigorating puzzle that will never make sense to my western upbringing.

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