Instruments Quote by Esperanza Spalding Download Open image “People are more used to seeing men who are masters at an instrument than women.” — Esperanza Spalding ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.3 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Instruments Masters Men Music making People Seeing Used
People are more used to seeing men who are masters at an instrument than women. When people say, 'Oh, she plays like a dude,' it's usually dudes who are the ones saying it. They're saying, 'Oh, she's as good as us.' Of course, that's a stupid statement. It's totally stereotypical to say, 'We have an advantage on this, and if… — Esperanza Spalding Copy Share
Men, like musical instruments, seem made to be played upon. — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
I see man more as an instrument or an agent more than anything else. — Ben Nicholson Copy Share Image
I'm an advocate for women to become more aware of the different positions in the music industry. — Victoria Monet Copy Share Image
I hope one day people don't look at women like they're out of their minds when they want to pick up an instrument and… — Joan Jett Copy Share Image
I don't hate being compared with female musicians. I don't mind that at all. I have no problem with seeing connections between women's work. — Ani DiFranco Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, music is a male-dominated industry. It's not that there aren't plenty of women working in the industry, it's just, the higher up you… — Cassie Ventura Copy Share Image
I think, in general, more women need to be involved in music and in the industry - that's been an issue. — Tinashe Copy Share Image
It's not so surprising that there are more women in metal bands. And they're not just fronting them. There are drummers and guitar players,… — Floor Jansen Copy Share Image
A lot of females are openly discussing their experiences as women in the music industry. — Charli XCX Copy Share Image
There are men too superior to be seen except by a few, as there are notes too high for the scale of most ears. — Ralph Waldo Emerson 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
Each woman is like an instrument, waiting to be learned, loved, and finely played, to have at last her own true music made. — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
The only thing I try to watch carefully is that I never lose the love for the instrument. That's also why I decided against… — Nils Frahm Copy Share Image
It's difficult for people to come to the understanding that only a small minority of the people ever really get the word about life,… — Earl Nightingale Copy Share Image
Jazz is not something that can be defined through blunt instruments. It is much more poetic than that. — Pat Metheny Copy Share Image
Like a child exploring the attic of an old house on a rainy day, discovering a trunk full of treasure and then calling all… — Eugene H. Peterson Copy Share Image
The concept of humanity is an especially useful ideological instrument of imperialist expansion, and in its ethical-humanitarian form it is a specific vehicle of… — Carl Schmitt Copy Share Image
Kenny G, I have to be grateful to him for proving that the instrument can be played all different kinds of ways. — Steve Lacy Copy Share Image
Mechanical instruments, potentially a vehicle of rational human purposes, are scarcely a blessing when they enable the gossip of the village idiot and the… — Lewis Mumford Copy Share Image
Local and state governments have outrun the federal government. The EPA has served notice that it will enact a rule requiring CO2 reductions by… — Al Gore Copy Share Image
From the 1990s onward, the financial sector created a vast array of instruments designed to separate investors from their money, financial derivatives of an… — John L. Casti Copy Share Image
[The Community's] crosses and trials give me confidence. But I derive my hope above all, and most especially, from our utter incapacity, for it… — Theodore Guerin Copy Share Image
![“[The Community's] crosses and trials give me confidence. But I derive my hope above all, and most especially, from our utter incapacity, for it is always upon nothingness that God is pleased to rear His works. If at any day we accomplish some good here, the glory will certainly be His alone, since…” quote by Theodore Guerin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/2b8/theodore-guerin-54729_accomplish_the-community-s-crosses-and-trials-give_7176.jpg)