Esperanza Spalding Quotes

Painting is something that you need to do, if not every day, then certainly most days. It is almost like being a pianist: if you stop, you lose something.

If you watch any good player, they're using different parts of their body and working with instruments that respond to those movements. They're moving in many dimensions at once.

I would enjoy venturing into music, as I do write songs and compose music! And, of course, dance, rhythm and performance are in my blood, so eventually I see myself doing something in that area, surely!

I played piano, I learned a lot about music.

I still play the fiddle every day. I'm afraid if I don't, it won't know who I am.

I don't sing. I don't dance.

You can tell whether a person plays well or not by the way he carries the instrument, whether it means something to him or not.

One of the most important elements in teaching, conducting, and performing, all three, is listening.

I suppose my father was more influential in my starting to play the guitar.

I had a good guitar, and I was a young, young kid.

Especially with music, people want confidence.

I am a tenor buff. I hear myself.

I'm an interpreter of music.

And, you know, my dad would show me some things sometimes, but the best things that I got to do were to actually see really good players play up close. That gives you an idea of fingering and technique and what not.

I would love to do more music, definitely. That is my true passion. Dance is first and then music.

I am playing the violin, that's all I know, nothing else, no education, no nothing. You just practice every day.

Singing is something I can do, but it's not my first passion.

The one thing I do know is that I'm the best Taylor Hawkins drummer there is, and that is all I can hope to be. And when it comes to music, musicianship and skill, there is no such thing as better or worse because so much is personal opinion, and I can see that now.

Conducting is a strange thing to teach.

Tap dancing is something I love, and I've been working on it to get really good.

I got my first guitar in October of 1968. I'm self-taught.

I'm very serious about what I do. I practice every day for three hours. I work on my scales; I work on my tone. But otherwise, I like to have fun.

I'm not a huge practicer, which is probably not a good thing because my band definitely needs to practice.

Music is a performing art, as any Native American will tell you. It isn't there in the score.

The thing with food is that you can give 20 people the same recipe and the same ingredients, and somebody's going to make it better than somebody else, and that's the creativity of it. It's like music. You could have a bunch of people playing the same piece, and somebody's gonna play it better.