Top 40 Quotes by Esperanza Spalding

There's a guy I used to pay to work with me who'd call me 'kiddo.' I said, 'There's nothing that justifies you expressing that to me, your boss.'

I just think music is so intrinsically linked with images in the culture that we live in that you'll be hard-pressed to have an experience with the music without a preconceived notion.

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

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

There's enough time in the day: If you go to bed at 10 and start your day at 6, there's a lot you can do in a day!

If you don't already know about jazz music, how would you be exposed? How would get an opportunity to find out if it spoke to you? If you get exposed to it enough, you might find a taste for it.

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.

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

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