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Abigail Washburn Quotes

I'm no ethnomusicologist. There is a connection between the five-note scale used both in traditional Chinese music and the blues, but I don't really understand it. All I know is, whenever I play with Chinese musicians, we seem to belong to the same musical gene pool.

Abigail Washburn

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: musician
Nationality: american
Birth: November 10, 1977

Topics

Music Musicians Connection Pool Play

Few people realize what a handicap it is to be what people call a beautiful woman. I'm glad, of course, that I don't look like an unmade bed, but too often, I'm just taken at face value. And there aren't many men who believe a beautiful woman can have any brains.

Beautiful Men Woman Value People

Some people argue that we should limit choice in favour of good local services. My response is simple: why should we assume those two concepts are mutually exclusive?

Good Simple People Choice Why Limit

There are people in every time and every land who want to stop history in its tracks. They fear the future, mistrust the present, and invoke the security of a comfortable past which, in fact, never existed.

Fear Future History Time Past Stop

If you could literally 'rid' yourself of your problems by voicing them, I'd be all for it. But since that isn't so, why not reserve the spoken word for functional interactions and witticisms, if not declarations of love?

Love Yourself Problems You Why Your

During the '70s I was interested in words and meaning as a way of making art.

Art Words Meaning Way Interested

Every single thing that I was told that I couldn't do without a label - get in the charts, get on to the Radio 1 playlist - I've done.

Done Single Without Radio Get Label

If I had gone to art college and everybody was being a conceptual artist, I probably would have wanted to be a portrait or landscape painter.

Art College Portrait Landscape Gone

Miffy has changed quite a lot since the early books, although I never realised it at the time.

Time Early Never Books Changed Lot

Everyone's seen the Beatles.

Everyone Seen Beatles

A lot of people put all that stuff on a pedestal, and they won't touch it. But I don't think that's the reason they did that. I think they played that stuff out of pure joy.

Joy People Think Touch Reason Out

What, other than injustice, could be the reason that the displaced citizens of New Orleans cannot be accommodated by the richest nation in the world?

Wynton Marsalis

World Injustice New Reason Nation

I really get a smile that people think they have a right to even suggest how I give my money away. I have no mandate to give a dime to anybody.

Smile Money People Think Right Get

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