Genre boundaries are good for marketing but they all but disappear when you're a player.
From Esperanza Spalding
I love people, and I love to be with people and to make music with people, but my natural state is to revert back to being by myself in my house, which is cool because that's where I practice and write and listen and study.
My earliest attempts at writing were when I was seven. I would sit at the piano and transcribe the songs I heard on the radio. I'd change little things in the music and write different lyrics.
It's a pity that if someone who has a really profoundly potent art to share chooses not to or doesn't fit into this very thin slice of what's desirable and marketable, chances are the public will never get a chance to hear what they're doing.
I don't watch TV, I don't spend time on the Internet, and I don't party much. I don't text very much, either.
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!
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.
There is an assumption that if you're young and pretty, you will get all these opportunities that are way beyond your musical foundation.
I always say that the problem with jazz accessibility is not the content of the music, it's people's ability to access it.
The benefit of the radio is, something beyond your realm of knowledge can surprise you, can enter your realm of knowledge.
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