Esperanza Spalding Quotes

For me, my style is very versatile.

That has always been my initiative, to do my own thing and take things that don't really go together and put them together. Wear a tuxedo jacket with some track pants, whatever I feel like, whatever I think is dope.

For me as an artist, the expansiveness of my interests and my influences make me enigmatic. I think any man can be that way - if you love enough interesting things.

The sexiest thing about style is if you kind of just take your personality and put it in what you wear. That's what I think is cool.

I love fashion. For me, it's always interesting because I like to be able to mix up different styles and different brands, kind of like how my music taste or personality is. There's lots of influences.

My identity has everything to do with me and my instrument. It doesn't have to do with what production style I use, or how many people played on it, whether it's sparse or grandiose or whatever. And I'm social, frankly.

To be a true artist, I have to be true to who I am now and write that way.

I really don't think of my work in terms of a genre. I think of it in terms of what I want to say, what I think is cool, and what I'm good at.

I admire anyone with their own sense of personal style.

Any kind of creativity is not settling down into a happy little space. I don't try to be mellow or anything. I think I have quite... my voice is what it is, no matter what I'm singing, it's always going to sound like me. There's not too far I could go. I sound like myself. I hope that I haven't put any boundaries on anything.

I don't know where my fashion sense comes from, exactly. I've always been interested in, not necessarily being unique, but not necessarily sticking to the preexisting paradigm - whether it be clothes or music or whatever.

It's a new era in fashion - there are no rules. It's all about the individual and personal style, wearing high-end, low-end, classic labels, and up-and-coming designers all together.

To me, what makes an artist is a unique personality that they're not afraid to let show.

It's helpful to have a handbag that's a bit crazy, or shoes that have kiwis on them or something, because it distracts.

I love experimenting with clothes for photo shoots, but when I'm onstage, I want to show people that there are other options. You can just be yourself and still make good music.

I love being able to express myself through what I wear - and for it to be a way of expressing uniqueness and individuality.

All artists are equal when they are themselves.

When I think of the great artists that I admire, they always had something, whether it be their hair, rings, or whatever.

Art is such a personal experience, I really try to make my own thing.

I am very much my own person and my own artist.

I feel like fashion is about being innovative and being able to turn something into something else, making it cool, and making it your own.

I think I'm just doing me, my music, my shows, and my stories.

Why is it that when I did a weird dress in the past, people were like, 'Oh, it's niche,' and why when I do a pair of jeans that are super cool, it's much more accessible, but I enjoy doing it? I enjoy the mix of those two things. I realized that quite late, actually. I'm going to really try to express those two things at the same time, because this is me.

Express yourself through your art - whether it’s your drawings in a sketchpad, tattoos on your skin, the shade of your lipstick, or the clothes that you wear.

When the individuality of the artist begins to express itself, what the artist gains in the way of liberty he loses in the way of order.