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Esperanza Spalding

Esperanza Spalding

American Musician

Born: Oct 18, 1984

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Jazz has always been a melting pot of influences and I plan to incorporate them all. Esperanza Spalding

Jazz Melting Melting Pot Pot Always Been Influences Them Plan Incorporate

You can grow up with literally nothing and you don't suffer if you know you're loved and valued. Esperanza Spalding

You Nothing Valued Know Up Literally Loved Grow Grow Up Suffer

I just want to say, if you're going crazy, take a break. I felt overwhelmed by stuff that wasn't satisfying me, things I was supposed to do for my career. I stopped and said, 'Let me get back to the basics.' Esperanza Spalding

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

Music Change Writing Little Things Sit Lyrics Seven Would Write Piano Songs Attempts Were Heard Different Little Radio Things Earliest

Genre boundaries are good for marketing but they all but disappear when you're a player. Esperanza Spalding

Good You Marketing Disappear Boundaries Genre Player

Anything I do has to have integrity, so if you just want to make music, it's not difficult finding support. The hard part for a publicist or manager is making a star. Esperanza Spalding

Music You Integrity Difficult Finding Part Support Make Making Manager Just Want Anything Hard Hard Part Star Publicist

I like to read, and I like dance. I don't dance, but I like to see other people dance. Esperanza Spalding

People Dance Other See Like Read

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. Esperanza Spalding

Music You Opportunity Jazz Enough Out Would Find About Spoke Know How Get Taste Might Jazz Music Exposed

I never think my music isn't easy until I got to teach it to other people. Esperanza Spalding

Music People Think Other Easy Never Until Got Teach

If you're a writer, and you write fiction, that's not all you read. Esperanza Spalding

You Write Writer Read Fiction

It's about process, the process of growth. It seems to me in my own life - and other minds throughout history have also observed this phenomenon - that growth seems to move in two directions at the same time. Esperanza Spalding

When I was a kid, people called me Emily rather than Esperanza, even though my full name is Esperanza Emily Spalding. Esperanza Spalding

Me People Kid Though Rather Emily Name Than Full Even

I'm realizing now that I was always really curious about inviting people into a space and sharing information that way. But I didn't have any context for it. It was just fun because I was homeschooled and lonely and bored, and I'd do things to get people to come over. Esperanza Spalding

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