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Esperanza Spalding

I put my mother through a lot when I was a teenager. I used to lie a lot. Now, we talk all the time.

– Esperanza Spalding

Esperanza Spalding

I was exposed to many kinds of music including rock and disco, classical and folk, Midtown and Miles Davis, Sly Stone and David Bowie.

– Esperanza Spalding

Esperanza Spalding

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

Esperanza Spalding

When I was a kid, I was really curious about acting. And I was interested in movement and dance. I wasn’t good at either of those things – I didn’t work at those things.

– Esperanza Spalding

Esperanza Spalding

I focused primarily on being an instrumentalist and studying music and on my primary means of expression: composing and playing.

– Esperanza Spalding

Esperanza Spalding

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

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Esperanza Spalding

When something in art or music piques my interest, I tend to go check it out, and most things I check out, I’m not very good at. But a few things I’ve gone to check out have given me back as much love as I gave them, usually much more.

– Esperanza Spalding

Esperanza Spalding

I don’t think it’s about playing and singing, to be honest. That seems like old news, you know? I wasn’t thinking about that. I just think that’s in my body now. Dancers don’t think about their legs moving one way and their arms moving another. Over time, you incorporate that into your instrument.

– Esperanza Spalding

Esperanza Spalding

As you go back or move toward insights/ideas/events/words/lessons/mistakes in the past, you develop into the future from the present. I think that’s pretty cool that two quote-unquote opposites are intrinsically linked. That whole theme of opposites being two sides of the same whole is a theme that’s always been intriguing to me.

– Esperanza Spalding

Esperanza Spalding

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.

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Esperanza Spalding

There’s nothing wrong with struggle. Anytime I look back at a difficult phase of my life and see what grew out of it – the creative survival tactics – I think that the good is way better than the bad.

– Esperanza Spalding

Esperanza Spalding

And I feel that it’s inevitable that the work that I do will reflect the life that I live. And the life I live feels very diverse.

– Esperanza Spalding

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