Esperanza Spalding
Esperanza Spalding
Esperanza Emily Spalding, sometimes professionally known with the stylized name of esperanza spalding, is an American bassist, singer, songwriter, and composer. Her accolades include five Grammy Awards, a Boston Music Award, a Soul Train Music Award, and two honorary doctorates: one from her alma mater Berklee College of Music and one from the California Institute of the Arts (CalArts).
"There’s two sides of the coin: One where people dont expect you to do anything and wont let you do anything because they think you dont know how, and then the other side is when youre fucking up but they wont tell you because youre a girl. Then you don’t learn."
"…Theres no secret, no shortcut. Once you accept that being a writer or a creator is just really hard and takes a lot of hours of slogging through crappy first drafts, you just keep producing, and then you turn around and its done. Thats the magic."
"Alchemy and magic are about how mundane, benign, and abundant materials can have an effect that is greater than the sum of their parts. To me, creativity is alchemy."
"I want to have a beneficial effect on your physiology, but it’s not my business what happens after that…It’s my gift to you."
