Rhiannon Giddens Quotes

Rhiannon Giddens
Rhiannon Giddens
American Musician
Born: Feb 21, 1977
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We have to talk about the negativity, but we have to enjoy the beauty of what this country, culturally, has done. Rhiannon Giddens
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I stood on people's shoulders, so I want to be there for somebody else to take it even further. Rhiannon Giddens
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I used to subscribe to Nintendo Power. The first issue had 'Mario 2,' and it had all the characters rendered in clay. So I started making all of these characters out of clay. Rhiannon Giddens
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People think art comes out of strife. No, art comes out of love, and it comes out of freedom, and it comes out of feeling safe, and it comes out of feeling embraced by the vibe and by the energy. That's when you can make your best stuff. Rhiannon Giddens
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Anybody who thinks the lute just came out of a vacuum doesn't know the history. Rhiannon Giddens
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People say, 'I'm tired of thinking about race, it's a drag.' Yeah, well, welcome to my life! I don't care who you are. We have the time and the headspace for this stuff. The least you can do is take a moment. Rhiannon Giddens
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Music affects people in a way that bare facts can't. Rhiannon Giddens
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For me the bare feet are grounding. I'm connected to the Earth in a way that I cannot be any other way. Rhiannon Giddens
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The truth, the real history, is way more interesting and representative of what America actually is. Rhiannon Giddens
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We have been fed so many false narratives, many of them racialized to deliberately feed a racist agenda. It's important to address and dig into that wherever you can. Rhiannon Giddens
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What's really interesting to me is to have a connection to what was going on in the past, but to make it a living thing. Rhiannon Giddens
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Well, you know, the original banjos were all handmade instruments. Gourd - it would be made with gourds and whatever, you know, materials would have been around. And, you know, first hundred years of its existence, the banjo's known as a plantation instrument, as a black instrument, you know? Rhiannon Giddens
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In order to understand the history of the banjo, and the history of bluegrass music, we need to move beyond the narrative we've inherited, beyond generalizations that bluegrass is mostly derived from a Scotch-Irish tradition with influences from Africa. It is actually a complex Creole music that comes from multiple cultures. Rhiannon Giddens
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There was such hostility to the idea of a banjo being a black instrument. It was co-opted by this white supremacist notion that old-time music was the inheritance of white America. Rhiannon Giddens
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I play a replica of a banjo from the 1950s. It was the first commercial-style banjo in the United States so it's the first one that white people played. Rhiannon Giddens
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I'll talk about the banjo all day long and the history of minstrel shows. Rhiannon Giddens
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To learn the history of the banjo is to recover the actual history of America. Rhiannon Giddens
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American music is always best when it comes from a mixture of things. Rhiannon Giddens
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My life used to be record, tour, record, tour. You can never say no as a freelance musician. I was on the road 200 days a year. Rhiannon Giddens
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I'm not good at planning ahead because it's just too much. I plan, set it up and then don't think about it again until it's almost time. That's just how it goes. Rhiannon Giddens
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I'm a North Carolina native. Grew up in North Carolina. Rhiannon Giddens
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I keep starting supergroups, writing ballets and things like that. Rhiannon Giddens
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There is music out there that is commercially driven, whether you like it or not. That's a peculiarly American innovation. We innovated the commercial music business. Rhiannon Giddens
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The best part of a MacArthur is having some pressure taken off from touring relentlessly. Rhiannon Giddens
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In the commercial music world, the folk world, we sell records and concert tickets - this is the way I make a living. You go out, you make your art and hopefully people will put their money down for it. But it's getting hard. I have to be on the road so much to keep the lights on. Rhiannon Giddens
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History is my biggest teacher. Rhiannon Giddens
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