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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Contributing
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- Nov 07, 2020
If we work on it, we can absolutely refuse any notion that suggests that after generations of contributing to this country, being a part of the bones and the marrow, that I'm supposed to be uncomfortable here.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I never left jazz. The relationship between structure and improvisation - that constant conversation and tension - I've always wanted in every genre and song that I perform.
- Get
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- Nov 07, 2020
I get bored very quickly.
- Jazz
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- Nov 07, 2020
Jazz has a lot to do with being very present. You know the structure, then you flow through it.
- Being
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's a beautiful, kind of seductive trap in being autobiographical in our writing of songs: We just get stuck in our own syrup, and it's so personal that it almost can be embarrassing to the listener.
- Feet
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a preacher's kid, I'm big-boned, I have giant feet, and I've always been able to run fast, and so I had this sense of, 'I can't fail. I'm invincible. I'm made of green juice and concrete; nothing's gonna happen to me.'
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think living in a way that's close to nature makes you feel like that - makes you feel how thin the veil is between life and death.
- Just
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm so grateful for just the inherent mercy of life.
- Lineage
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- Nov 07, 2020
I come from a lineage of ministers.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
The women and the men are teachers and preachers in my family, and a little bit of both those fell on me.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a real Otis Redding fan, and I just think he sounds so good. He sounds like he's always at the end of a long day, and he just won't give up. I just love his wearied devotion - that beautiful, beautiful, weathered sound.
- Favorite
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- Nov 07, 2020
Salif Keita's one of my favorite artists.
- Nov 07, 2020
'Moffou' is one of my favorite records.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
Music is primal: when it's done without pretension, you can really feel the shape of someone's soul.
- Everyone
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- Nov 07, 2020
Everyone I perform and tour with looks out for each other; we ensure we stay healthy.
- Jazz
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- Nov 07, 2020
I studied opera for a year at Georgia State University, but I wasn't interested in that meticulous, technical approach to music. So I left school and went back to jazz.
- Communication
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- Nov 07, 2020
The whole musical institution of the church involves a lot of different styles of communication at the same time. Things like call and response. Sometimes they use the music to pray and work things out. And there's so much repetition in gospel, it's like churning butter.
- Culture
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have no ancestral link to the mountains. But I really do feel close to mountain culture. Their ways of food, of thinking. The way they hang out with no recording devices and just sing songs with each other.
- Nov 07, 2020
Surrender is working with what happens.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
The church is an institution of music and of production and performance, and it has to do with taking people to places inside of themselves and giving them an opportunity to sit deep in their own feelings, and to be together and deeply alone at the same time, and to process things.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Gardening is a working meditation for me. It helps me remember process, and it helps me remember patience.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
I live just above a creek, and it's always very active. It almost sounds like the ocean. It's constant, and there's lots of big rocks in it, so it's got a great sound. It's one of my favorite things.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've begun to realize, as I'm getting older, that I was taught to go for a certain kind of stillness to get things done. I missed that in my life. I loved my grandmother's property, out in South Georgia right above the Florida line, so I just thought I'd find some property where I could feel that again.
- My Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a southern woman, we often define ourselves by who we are with. But I wanted my life to be built differently.
- Being
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- Nov 07, 2020
Making a record and being a touring artist is about cooperation between spirit, craft, emotion, and focus.
- Faith
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love talking to other musicians on tour and finding out what we all have to do, not just as artists but as business people. A lot of us are investing and trying to use social media. It is such an interesting level of responsibility and engagement on all these levels. I don't know how one can do this without absolute commitment and faith.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am more prolific when I have something to respond to. I get my juice from people and real stories and things that seem common but are amazing.
- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think, as singers and performers, we are ambassadors of the human experience. I don't want to get bored just talking about myself.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I call myself a singer-songwriter influenced by the gospel and jazz tradition. Naturally, because of my lifestyle and love for nature, there's a lot of folk and Americana there because that's just my life.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
I let the song guide me. I move through the space that I'm given rather than trying to make an impression on the material. I'm curious to learn from the music.
- Personal
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love songs that create moments that are very personal and that tell a story.
- Group
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- Nov 07, 2020
We had no television, and I only heard the radio when my parents went out to a Bible study group. They liked a quiet, meditative house.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
No matter what happens, I can go back to the mountains. I have nature and my wonderful friends and neighbors. I get so much by being there.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love singing all types of genres.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
I want to record, tour, and just live life.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
Life is good. It might not go the way we plan it, but that's fine. We just do what we can.
- Loved
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've always loved the woods, and I've always loved gardening and a lot of solitude and quiet.
- Bond
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- Nov 07, 2020
A lot of people in the African-American community are raised by grandmothers, and that relationship is a special bond and circle.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
I come from a family that has grown their own food from well into times of slavery, provided for themselves and people around them. So I found, through conversations about the earth and about the house with my neighbors, a lot of common ground.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020