American - Musician | October 18, 1984 -
Genre boundaries are good for marketing but they all but disappear when you're a player.
Esperanza Spalding
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There is an assumption that if you're young and pretty, you will get all these opportunities that are way beyond your musical foundation.
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I always say that the problem with jazz accessibility is not the content of the music, it's people's ability to access it.
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I just think music is so intrinsically linked with images in the culture that we live in that you'll be hard-pressed to have an experience with the music without a preconceived notion.
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It's a pity that if someone who has a really profoundly potent art to share chooses not to or doesn't fit into this very thin slice of what's desirable and marketable, chances are the public will never get a chance to hear what they're doing.
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I like to read, and I like dance. I don't dance, but I like to see other people dance.
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I love people, and I love to be with people and to make music with people, but my natural state is to revert back to being by myself in my house, which is cool because that's where I practice and write and listen and study.
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The benefit of the radio is, something beyond your realm of knowledge can surprise you, can enter your realm of knowledge.
KnowledgeSurpriseYouBeyondRadio
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.
MusicOpportunityEnoughYouFind
I write at the piano, so I write things that fit comfortably under my hands, and I'm not thinking in terms of any specific compositional methods. I'm just seeking sounds.
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For what I can imagine and feel and think and hear, I can hardly do anything on the acoustic bass. It used to be just pure frustration of imagining so much more and being able to get to a certain level of execution.
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I am insubordinate by nature. I can't help it.
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