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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
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Esperanza Spalding
music educator, jazz musician, singer, double-bassist, composer, recording artist, librettist
1984
Esperanza Emily Spalding, sometimes professionally known with the stylized name of esperanza spalding, is an American bassist, singer, songwriter, and composer. Her accolades include five Grammy Awards, a Boston Music Award, a Soul Train Music Award, and two honorary doctorates: one from her alma mater Berklee College of Music and one from the California Institute of the Arts (CalArts).
All Quotes by Esperanza Spalding
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I want to have a beneficial effect on your physiology, but it’s not my business what happens after that…It’s my gift to you.
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Alchemy and magic are about how mundane, benign, and abundant materials can have an effect that is greater than the sum of their parts. To me, creativity is alchemy.
— Esperanza Spalding
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…There’s two sides of the coin: One where people don't expect you to do anything and won't let you do anything because they think you don't know how, and then the other side is when you're fucking up but they won't tell you because you're a girl. Then you don’t learn.
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…There's no secret, no shortcut. Once you accept that being a writer or a creator is just really hard and takes a lot of hours of slogging through crappy first drafts, you just keep producing, and then you turn around and it's done. That's the magic.
— Esperanza Spalding
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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
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You don't have to be fearless to do anything; you can be scared out of your mind. I fear that I won't get better and that I won't have time to practice. To be called a 'jazz musician' - it's a big responsibility.
— Esperanza Spalding