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Esperanza Spalding Quotes

My earliest attempts at writing were when I was seven. I would sit at the piano and transcribe the songs I heard on the radio. I'd change little things in the music and write different lyrics.

Esperanza Spalding

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: musician
Nationality: american
Birth: October 18, 1984

Topics

Change Music Writing Little Things

Bra-burning never happened. It was completely made up by the media. A couple of women protesting a Miss America pageant threw some bras into a garbage can, and somehow that became this longstanding idea of feminists as bra-burners.

Jessica Valenti

Women America Media Never Garbage

If you can write any way and it's working out, just bow down in gratitude.

Jennifer Egan

Gratitude You Down Way Write Out

I told you, the dopes are gonna inherit the earth anyway.

Sidney Buchman

You Earth Inherit Anyway Gonna

One of the things I feel very strong about is the achievement of the Band really being a complete band.

Robbie Robertson

Achievement Strong Feel Band Things

If people know you'll go to any lengths for your client, they're less likely to play games with you.

Roger Ailes

People You Play Go Know Games

I'm not interested in making folkloric records, but I like to push the traditional format around so that familiar patterns get knocked on the head.

Ry Cooder

Push Head Patterns Get Knocked Like

Every day I've got to get up and make a decision. I have an opportunity every day to affect young men and the coaches that are around me, the entire organization and the entire community.

Mike Singletary

Opportunity Community Decision Day

Love myself I do. Not everything, but I love the good as well as the bad. I love my crazy lifestyle, and I love my hard discipline. I love my freedom of speech and the way my eyes get dark when I'm tired. I love that I have learned to trust people with my heart, even if it will get broken. I am proud of everything that I am and will become.

Johnny Weir

Love Good Heart Freedom Eyes Myself

I'm a total protein shake junkie nerd. I get creative every morning - you never know what you're gonna get in my shake... fruit? Peanut butter? Ice-cream?

Christina Perri

Morning Creative Fruit You Know Get

With recording, everything changed. The prospect of music being detachable from time and place meant that one could start to think of music as a part of one's furniture. It's an idea that many composers have felt reluctant about because it seemed to them to diminish the importance of music.

Brian Eno

Music Time Start Think Furniture

Ninety-seven is my lucky number.

Antonia Fraser

Lucky Number

Bush is morally a universalist. For instance, he says the freedom is good, the same thing is good, all over the world. So in that sense he's a universalist.

Peter Singer

Good Freedom World Same Over Sense