The benefit of the radio is, something beyond your realm of knowledge can surprise you, can enter your realm of knowledge. – 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 thats where I practice and write and listen and study. – Esperanza Spalding
I think theres so much negative influence on children in school settings. It becomes learning by rote to pass a test. Its not contextualized. – Esperanza Spalding
For the longest time I was brought up listening to only two genres of music, pop and rock. So in the past few years Ive been trying to expand my interests because I think that you can only write to the extent of your knowledge, and if your knowledge is limited you cant write past that. – Jacqueline Emerson