Author: Esperanza Spalding

Quotes

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

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

- Esperanza Spalding

Your sanity is harder to get back than money or contacts. You are the magic. You are the art. You can't lose that.

Your sanity is harder to get back than money or contacts. You are the magic. You are the art. You can't lose that.

- Esperanza Spalding

The benefit of the radio is, something beyond your realm of knowledge can surprise you, can enter your realm of knowledge.

The benefit of the radio is, something beyond your realm of knowledge can surprise you, can enter your realm of knowledge.

- Esperanza Spalding

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.

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

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

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

- Esperanza Spalding

I love Aretha Franklin, Edith Piaf, Blondie.

I love Aretha Franklin, Edith Piaf, Blondie.

- Esperanza Spalding

I always say that the problem with jazz accessibility is not the content of the music, it's people's ability to access it.

I always say that the problem with jazz accessibility is not the content of the music, it's people's ability to access it.

- Esperanza Spalding

I am insubordinate by nature. I can't help it.

I am insubordinate by nature. I can't help it.

- Esperanza Spalding

I don't watch TV, I don't spend time on the Internet, and I don't party much. I don't text very much, either.

I don't watch TV, I don't spend time on the Internet, and I don't party much. I don't text very much, either.

- Esperanza Spalding

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