Quotes by Abigail Washburn - Page 1

I really believe in the power of music.
Abigail Washburn / Singer
Believe
Power Of Music
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U.S.-China relations doesn't need another lawyer.
Abigail Washburn / Singer
China
Lawyer
Needs
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I've noticed that the more I open up, the more I learn.
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Noticed
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I tried to play flute because all the pretty girls played flute.
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Girl
Play
Pretty Girl
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I'm, I guess you could say, the Chinese-speaking, banjo-picking girl.
Abigail Washburn / Singer
Girl
Banjos
Chinese
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For most Americans, my Chinese music feels like a novelty and it's not what it is for me.
Abigail Washburn / Singer
Chinese
Chinese Music
Novelty
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For most Americans, my Chinese music feels like a novelty, and it's not what it is for me.
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Chinese
Novelty
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You can enjoy many different types of music. I think that's something more Americans should think about.
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Different Types
Types
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I played piano and was always in the choir. I tried to play flute because all the pretty girls played flute.
Abigail Washburn / Singer
Choir
Flute
Pretty Girls
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I feel like my kind of music is a big pot of different spices. It's a soup with all kinds of ingredients in it.
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Ingredients
Soup
Spices
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I would still describe China as a vast, invigorating puzzle that will never make sense to my western upbringing.
Abigail Washburn / Singer
China
Invigorating
Make Sense
Upbringing
Western
Describe
Vast
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My parents played the radio, but music was never an obsession or something that I thought I could call a career.
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Obsession
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One thing I carried my whole life, especially from my grandparents in Chicago, was a huge idealism for the world.
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Chicago
Idealism
Carried
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Martin Luther King's 'I Have a Dream' speech always sends me down some path, some trajectory of some creative idea.
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Luther
Trajectory
Sends
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I would say I've always lived creativity, but now I - I do it with an intention that's got a completely different power.
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Intention
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Hogslop is the real deal groovilicious honkin old-time string band. Guaranteed old-time awesomeness with these fellas around!
Abigail Washburn / Singer
Awesomeness
Band
Real
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China was the first time I truly felt like an outsider. I fell in love with the process of trying to become intimate with the culture.
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Intimate
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I reside in a new colony for the Chinese-singing banjo player, with a population of one. At least I have something I have to do with my life.
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Chinese
Colony
Player
Population
Singing
Life My Life New
Banjo
Reside
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I feel like the one insight that's extremely comforting to me about the world is that we all share the same pool of emotion that we draw from.
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Comforting
Emotion
Insight
Pool
Share
World Me Feel
Draw
Extremely
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One of my favorite albums in the world is Bruce Springsteen's 'Nebraska.' Each song has this very distinct character who has something profound to say.
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Nebraska
Profound
Springsteen
Bruce
Distinct
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I do see music as complete refuge. It's a universal home, complete common ground between everyone; it comes from a place that has no nation and no boundaries around it.
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Boundaries
Common Ground
No Boundaries
Refuge
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Outside your door, the world is waiting. Inside your heart, a voice is calling. The four corners of the world are watching. So travel, daughter, travel. Go get it, girl.
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Daughter
Girl
Heart
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In China, I realized that if you visit often enough and learn the language, you will be assimilated, but you'll still be kept at arm's length; you'll always be looked on as a foreigner.
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Length
Arm
Assimilated
Foreigner
Visit
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As a child, I went to peace and ERA marches on the back of my mom and grandmother. Through them I learned that I wanted to find a way to make the world a more kind, compassionate place.
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Compassionate
Marches
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I believe in the old, because it shows us where we come from - where our souls have risen from. And I believe in the new, because it gives us the opportunity to create who we are becoming.
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Opportunity
Believe
Giving
Risen
Souls
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My whole drive is to make sure that music is a common space where we search for beauty and share it. It needs to be louder than any conversation. That's where we have to go as a human race.
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Conversation
Human Race
Louder
Search
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In some ways, my most comfortable feeling has been that of being an outsider coming in, but over the years I've tired of that and I'm ready to feel at home. That's what music gives me: a feeling of absolute home.
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Tired
Home Music Me
Absolute
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Is it an original idea? Or is it something where you're literally a creative collagist? You're taking pieces of the world that you see around you and that are inside of you and put them together in a way that you see fit.
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Creative
Ideas
Together
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I've moved around so much my whole life, and I've gotten so used to being the Other in situations - the foreigner, the outsider. The first time I've ever felt like there was no separation between me and the other elements was in music.
Abigail Washburn / Singer
Elements
Separation
Life Time Music
Foreigner
Gotten
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I had no intention of becoming a performer, and yet under miraculous circumstances I was brought into the music industry fold. If divine powers hadn't intervened, I'd still be living in China working in some area of Sino-American comparative law.
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Circumstances
Divine
Intention
Miraculous
Music Industry
Comparative
Fold
Intervened
No Intention
Powers
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I'm no ethnomusicologist. There is a connection between the five-note scale used both in traditional Chinese music and the blues, but I don't really understand it. All I know is, whenever I play with Chinese musicians, we seem to belong to the same musical gene pool.
Abigail Washburn / Singer
Chinese
Pool
Traditional
Music Know Blues
Scale
Belong
Blues
Connection
Gene
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I have a general sense of mission, and I intuitively know when something is influencing that mission. I think this is what I'm supposed to be doing. Doors keep opening. In the end, it's the best use of my skills. I've finally consented to the idea that I'm an artist.
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Artist
Doors
Opening
Skills
General
Consented
Finally
General Sense
In The End
Influencing
Intuitively
Mission
Supposed
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'Halo' I wrote with my grandpa in his nursing home. When I went to visit him, he'd often comment on my halo. But of course, I couldn't see. And he always - he had pictures of Jesus with these beautiful halos. And so I asked him if he'd write a song with me about Jesus' halo.
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Jesus
Comment
Grandpa
Nursing
Nursing Home
Asked
Halo
Pictures
Visit
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In some ways, in the U.S. we don't know how to be. I think in a lot of ways America is about liberation and about change and progressive human relations. And because of that, I feel like that we're confused about who we're supposed to be and what it is that's supposed to satisfy us and make us feel fulfilled.
Abigail Washburn / Singer
Confused
Fulfilled
Human Relations
Liberation
Progressive
Relations
Satisfy
Supposed
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When I first started playing the banjo and miraculously fell into a record deal in Nashville, TN, there was a period when I didn't go to China. It hurt. Like a pain in my gut... that pain you feel when you know it's time to connect with your parents or your God or your child or your past or your future... and you don't do it.
Abigail Washburn / Singer
Nashville
Banjo
Connect
Gut
Miraculously
Record Deal
Your Child
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I was born in Evanston, Illinois. I spent my elementary and part of my junior high school years in a D.C. suburb. And then I spent my high school years in Minnesota. And then I spent my college years in Colorado. And then I spent some time living in China. And then I spent three years in Vermont before moving down to Nashville.
Abigail Washburn / Singer
Born
China
College
High School
Illinois
Junior High
Minnesota
Moving
Nashville
School Years
Three
Vermont
Time Living School
High
Elementary
Junior
Junior High School
Spent
Suburb
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Whenever I visited China in the past, the relationships always felt superficial; there was no time where I felt those moments of conflict and delight that make you feel close to another person. But since I started touring there in 2004, I would always collaborate with local musicians, and that opened up a new level of intimacy.
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Conflict
Delight
Intimacy
Superficial
Touring
Time Always Past
In The Past
Local
Musicians
New Level
No Time
Opened
Visited
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I sang in a reggae band. And then there was a soul band where I sang back-up vocals and some lead. And I was also in a women's a capella group. And I was in the gospel choir at school. Actually, I've always been in choirs. Or some kind of group. Just because I love singing so much. But I truthfully never thought of it as a career.
Abigail Washburn / Singer
Band
Choir
Reggae
Singing
Love Women Always
Gospel
Group
Sang
Truthfully
Vocals
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