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“I fear that I won't get better and that I won't have time to practice. To be called a "jazz musician" - it's a big responsibility.”

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Esperanza Spalding

Esperanza Spalding is a talented bassist and singer known for her unique musical style and exceptional playing skills. Born on October 18, 1984, she has made significant achievements in her music career. more

“When somebody is flying airplanes into buildings and killing innocent people in the name of God, it makes you question why do they have that interpretation and somebody else has another interpretation, and how many people of Muslim faith would agree with that, and what are the different aspects of different people's religions that is so divisive, rather than being unifying?”

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“Even as a fan, as someone who's into his performances, the Stooges and his own stuff, Iggy [Pop] is one of the people who kept underlining something that a lot of my older musician friends with punk roots say: you get into this space in your life where you feel like a weirdo, you're marginalised, you don't fit in... and then you can get up on stage in front of people who probably hate you.”

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Author:Babatunde Adebimpe

“There are people who kind of let you know that you can silence the room.”

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Author:Babatunde Adebimpe

“Hearing that [David] Bowie passed was like you don't really believe it. It's as if the sky shifted a little bit, to remind you it was there.”

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Author:Babatunde Adebimpe

“If anybody won life, David Bowie did, at least as a creative entity in the sense of writing yourself into existence and writing yourself out in such a graceful swoop.”

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Author:Babatunde Adebimpe

“If you push hard enough you can change. You can take everything you know and round it up, turn it into something else, and keep turning things into something else.”

Ifs Knows Hard Enough Turns Rounds

Author:Babatunde Adebimpe

“I was born in St. Louis and lived in Pittsburgh for a bit, before my family moved to Nigeria, where they're from. We lived there for three or four years and came back to the States when I was about ten. I realised that I'd gone from place to place not fitting in. The thing that helped me fit in when moving around and not having a ton of friends was that I could make art. That was the through-line.”

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Author:Babatunde Adebimpe

“There was something in me, even leaving fifth grade, that hit me and said, "I have to get out of here. I don't know where, and I don't know what else I can do but I'm really not going to end up like any of these people."”

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Author:Babatunde Adebimpe

“Being 15 and like a punk in the DIY community, basically being with a group of people like no one else, it was the first place to exclude or call out if people were racist, sexist, homophobic or in any way prejudiced.”

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Author:Babatunde Adebimpe

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