Abigail Washburn quote: "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."

In some ways, in the U.S. we don't know how to be. I think in a lot of ways America is about lib...
ABIGAIL WASHBURN

I do get around. Geographically, that is.
ABIGAIL WASHBURN

I was born in Evanston, Illinois. I spent my elementary and part of my junior high school years in a...
ABIGAIL WASHBURN

My parents played the radio, but music was never an obsession or something that I thought I could ca...
ABIGAIL WASHBURN

I would say I've always lived creativity, but now I - I do it with an intention that's got a...
ABIGAIL WASHBURN

I'm, I guess you could say, the Chinese-speaking, banjo-picking girl.
ABIGAIL WASHBURN

I feel like the one insight that's extremely comforting to me about the world is that we all sha...
ABIGAIL WASHBURN

'Halo' I wrote with my grandpa in his nursing home. When I went to visit him, he'd often...
ABIGAIL WASHBURN

My whole drive is to make sure that music is a common space where we search for beauty and share it....
ABIGAIL WASHBURN

I really believe in the power of music.
ABIGAIL WASHBURN

You can enjoy many different types of music. I think that's something more Americans should thin...
ABIGAIL WASHBURN

Whenever I visited China in the past, the relationships always felt superficial; there was no time w...
ABIGAIL WASHBURN

As a child, I went to peace and ERA marches on the back of my mom and grandmother. Through them I le...
ABIGAIL WASHBURN

One thing I carried my whole life, especially from my grandparents in Chicago, was a huge idealism f...
ABIGAIL WASHBURN

In some ways, my most comfortable feeling has been that of being an outsider coming in, but over the...
ABIGAIL WASHBURN

You have to try things you're really afraid of, even if you pee yourself a little bit.
ABIGAIL WASHBURN

I believe in music because it has the power of change.
ABIGAIL WASHBURN

I've noticed that the more I open up, the more I learn.
ABIGAIL WASHBURN

I feel like my kind of music is a big pot of different spices. It's a soup with all kinds of ing...
ABIGAIL WASHBURN

I would still describe China as a vast, invigorating puzzle that will never make sense to my western...
ABIGAIL WASHBURN

I do see music as complete refuge. It's a universal home, complete common ground between everyon...
ABIGAIL WASHBURN

I believe in the old, because it shows us where we come from - where our souls have risen from. And ...
ABIGAIL WASHBURN

I reside in a new colony for the Chinese-singing banjo player, with a population of one. At least I ...
ABIGAIL WASHBURN

Martin Luther King's 'I Have a Dream' speech always sends me down some path, some trajec...
ABIGAIL WASHBURN

I sang in a reggae band. And then there was a soul band where I sang back-up vocals and some lead. A...
ABIGAIL WASHBURN

In China, I realized that if you visit often enough and learn the language, you will be assimilated,...
ABIGAIL WASHBURN

I have a general sense of mission, and I intuitively know when something is influencing that mission...
ABIGAIL WASHBURN

I had no intention of becoming a performer, and yet under miraculous circumstances I was brought int...
ABIGAIL WASHBURN

When I first started playing the banjo and miraculously fell into a record deal in Nashville, TN, th...
ABIGAIL WASHBURN

China was the first time I truly felt like an outsider. I fell in love with the process of trying to...
ABIGAIL WASHBURN

I've moved around so much my whole life, and I've gotten so used to being the Other in situa...
ABIGAIL WASHBURN

One of my favorite albums in the world is Bruce Springsteen's 'Nebraska.' Each song has ...
ABIGAIL WASHBURN

For most Americans, my Chinese music feels like a novelty, and it's not what it is for me.
ABIGAIL WASHBURN

I played piano and was always in the choir. I tried to play flute because all the pretty girls playe...
ABIGAIL WASHBURN

It could be that, perhaps, they're trying to gain favor with the national labor movement in general ...
WASHBURN

The worst part is that the remaining members of the choir are dispirited to have lost some of their ...
WASHBURN

As we move forward, both Pell City and St. Clair County will be specifically mentioned in all news r...
WASHBURN

I heard people say it was a 20-mph headwind, ... It was grueling.
WASHBURN

This is an $8 billion domestic industry, $25 billion world-wide market, ... And it's completely frag...
WASHBURN

If you ask BASS, they would say they view us as competitors, ... But we think there's room for two t...
WASHBURN

I am incredibly honored to lead this newsroom, ... Your readers are very lucky that they have a news...
WASHBURN

We may need to consider some radical changes,
WASHBURN

In some Chicago neighborhoods, looking for a parking space is not unlike panning for gold.
GARY WASHBURN

We shall meet but we shall miss her.
H.S. WASHBURN

The point is that some Muslims are offended by them. I think that people need to apply their own fai...
CAROLYN WASHBURN

We felt it was a good move to enhance girls golf, but we did not intend to put the (Central Board of...
DAN WASHBURN

In case you haven't heard, the Internet is not a superhighway.
BILL WASHBURN

This is just a courtesy because we were invited. We have no reason to move the regional.
DAN WASHBURN

He was listening. I could see in his eyes he was recording everything. Mentally, he was so far ahead...
GRANT WASHBURN

Every time there's going to be someone who thinks they're getting hosed. I feel bad for Peter becaus...
GRANT WASHBURN

The smart guys listen, they ask questions and listen to what you have to say. They value experience....
GRANT WASHBURN

I knew he could do it if he could get the waves.
GRANT WASHBURN

We set up a small bitcoin and ethereum mining operation... that miraculously now is actually making ...
ABIGAIL JOHNSON

I'm a believer. I'm one of the few standing before you today from a large financial services...
ABIGAIL JOHNSON

Blockchain technology isn't just a more efficient way to settle securities. It will fundamentall...
ABIGAIL JOHNSON

I am in a traditional financial services business - but we at Fidelity can see that the evolution of...
ABIGAIL JOHNSON

Across the board, women are unhappy with our industry.
ABIGAIL JOHNSON

I was raised to believe that New England is the best place on the planet.
ABIGAIL JOHNSON

We need to come up with use cases for this technology that drive clear benefits for individuals and ...
ABIGAIL JOHNSON

When computer systems cause errors, you can end up with The Dreaded NIGO - the 'not in good orde...
ABIGAIL JOHNSON

We at Fidelity view ourselves just as much a financial information processing company as an investme...
ABIGAIL JOHNSON

Don't assume that the answers are out there in the form of somebody else already doing something...
ABIGAIL JOHNSON

I love this stuff - bitcoin, ethereum, blockchain technology - and what the future holds.
ABIGAIL JOHNSON

I like analyzing and managing large-scale transaction processing platforms, record-keeping administr...
ABIGAIL JOHNSON

Change is something that is expected and, therefore, not resisted.
ABIGAIL JOHNSON

Every day, you have to get up with new energy and new ideas to contribute to pushing the organizatio...
ABIGAIL JOHNSON

Even a small reduction in errors and rework can have a significant impact.
ABIGAIL JOHNSON

There's a time that may come in an organization where leading by influence is not enough. When t...
ABIGAIL JOHNSON

I demand pretty aggressive goal setting and a commitment to measured progress towards those goals be...
ABIGAIL JOHNSON

Lots of people will give you advice... and depending upon how well they know you, the advice might b...
ABIGAIL JOHNSON

No matter how senior you get in an organization, no matter how well you're perceived to be doing...
ABIGAIL JOHNSON

You have to think that the answer - and the right answer - for you and your organization might not b...
ABIGAIL JOHNSON

At the end of the day, you know yourself best.
ABIGAIL JOHNSON

I love everybody. I think my totem animal is a Labrador Retriever.
ABIGAIL DISNEY

Having traveled to parts of the world where war has done its usual nasty work on people's lives,...
ABIGAIL DISNEY

I've heard people say in the U.N. community among mediators they don't like women as mediato...
ABIGAIL DISNEY

When you make your first film at 47 and anybody but your mother goes to see it, to me, that's a ...
ABIGAIL DISNEY

I was a bit of a lost lamb in my twenties, trying to find my higher calling.
ABIGAIL DISNEY

We have a world minus a whole lot of talent that has stepped out of contention for leadership, only ...
ABIGAIL DISNEY

There's no one on this earth taken less seriously in a leadership context than a young woman - e...
ABIGAIL DISNEY

The fact is, funnily enough, that the people who seem to be most committed to causes also seem to be...
ABIGAIL DISNEY

My advice to female directors is not to wait until you feel like your ideas have been pre-certified ...
ABIGAIL DISNEY

When you strengthen women, you strengthen the world.
ABIGAIL DISNEY

Combat is a piece of war. But war is a totalizing, uncivilized experience.
ABIGAIL DISNEY

Film is the medium for communicating not just ideas, but things of the heart.
ABIGAIL DISNEY

The hardest thing in the world, I now know, is to hold in your head that it is okay to think that yo...
ABIGAIL DISNEY

When men talk about war, the stories and terminology vary - it's this battle, these weapons, thi...
ABIGAIL DISNEY

News reports don't look at the land that existed before a war and the land that exists after a w...
ABIGAIL DISNEY

I think if we understand better the impact of war on women and children, we might be more careful ab...
ABIGAIL DISNEY

The greater good is achieved by not only telling people what they need to know, but also filling the...
ABIGAIL DISNEY

I don't really like to talk about other people. I think people who have things going on in their...
ABIGAIL BRESLIN

Well, my brother started acting before I did.
ABIGAIL BRESLIN

I try to make myself do things for other people when I'm feeling down. Like, you can call your l...
ABIGAIL BRESLIN

I would love to do a 'Scream'-type movie.
ABIGAIL BRESLIN

I'm pretty boring.
ABIGAIL BRESLIN

I really like to cook.
ABIGAIL BRESLIN

I have a really great family, and when I'm not filming, I go home and walk the dogs, take out th...
ABIGAIL BRESLIN

I've never had a treehouse because I live in New York City. It would be a little bit hard to fit...
ABIGAIL BRESLIN

I never want to play the same character twice. I like to do different roles. I have fun with that.
ABIGAIL BRESLIN

Well, you know, I never want to feel like I have a set plan of what I'm supposed to do. I kind o...
ABIGAIL BRESLIN

I'd love to work with Michelle Williams. I think that she's incredible. She's such a gre...
ABIGAIL BRESLIN

I'm a huge horror movie fan. Beyond belief.
ABIGAIL BRESLIN

I like English, and I like writing essays, and that kind of stuff.
ABIGAIL BRESLIN

I've been really lucky with the people that I've gotten to work with. I learn a lot from the...
ABIGAIL BRESLIN

It's never really fun to have to cry in a scene or anything like that.
ABIGAIL BRESLIN

I like to have sleepovers.
ABIGAIL BRESLIN

I love Chicago.
ABIGAIL BRESLIN

I love animated movies in general. I like making them.
ABIGAIL BRESLIN

I'd like to do more TV; TV is completely different than working in movies in a lot of ways, it&#...
ABIGAIL BRESLIN

I'm from New York. I have a non, neutral accent. It can go any way you want.
ABIGAIL BRESLIN

People say, like, 'Are you a regular person?' 'Well, I'm not a robot, if that's ...
ABIGAIL BRESLIN

I made my first movie when I was five.
ABIGAIL BRESLIN

What's my favourite food? One you order out.
ABIGAIL BRESLIN

My mom didn't ever think I would take to acting because I was a very shy, very reserved kind of ...
ABIGAIL BRESLIN

It's cheesy, but having a pimple or a bad hair day isn't going to matter in five years. I do...
ABIGAIL BRESLIN

I've always been a huge fan of the 'Pirates of the Caribbean' movies.
ABIGAIL BRESLIN

I begin to think, that a calm is not desirable in any situation in life. Man was made for action and...
ABIGAIL ADAMS

Well, knowledge is a fine thing, and mother Eve thought so; but she smarted so severely for hers, th...
ABIGAIL ADAMS

If we do not lay out ourselves in the service of mankind whom should we serve?
ABIGAIL ADAMS

A little of what you call frippery is very necessary towards looking like the rest of the world.
ABIGAIL ADAMS

I've always felt that a person's intelligence is directly reflected by the number of conflic...
ABIGAIL ADAMS

Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of husbands. Remember all men would be tyrants if the...
ABIGAIL ADAMS

Great necessities call forth great leaders. -Abigail Adams.
ABIGAIL ADAMS

He was basically not sorry for the fact that Tanzanians were killed, that it was described as part o...
ABIGAIL PERKINS

He really didn't like that soldiers were in Saudi Arabia, the Holy Land. He said his target was the ...
ABIGAIL PERKINS

He said he was very happy. He stated Allah would take care of them.
ABIGAIL PERKINS

It sent a message to America, because bombings were the only way Americans would listen.
ABIGAIL PERKINS

Mohamed stated he would rather kill only Americans.
ABIGAIL PERKINS

Maturity is: The ability to stick with a job until it's finished; The ability to do a job without be...
ABIGAIL BUREN

In a letter to "Dear Abby" a reader complained that a gay couple was moving in across the street and...
ABIGAIL BUREN

If we could sell our experiences for what they cost us we'd be millionaires
ABIGAIL BUREN

If you want children to keep their feet on the ground, put some responsibility on their shoulders.
ABIGAIL BUREN

Kissing power is stronger than will power: Girls need to "prove their love" like a moose needs a hat...
ABIGAIL BUREN

The best index to a person's character is (a) how he treats people who can't do him any good, and (b...
ABIGAIL BUREN

People who fight fire with fire usually end up with ashes.
ABIGAIL BUREN

The less you talk, the more you're listened to.
ABIGAIL BUREN

A church is a hospital for sinners, not a museum for saints.
ABIGAIL BUREN

Fear less; hope more. Eat less; chew more. Talk less; say more. Hate less; love more.
ABIGAIL BUREN

If particular care and attention is not paid to the ladies, we are determined to foment a rebellion,...
ABIGAIL ADAMS

A little of what you call frippery is very necessary towards looking like the rest of the world
ABIGAIL ADAMS

I've always felt that a person's intelligence is directly reflected by the number of conflicting poi...
ABIGAIL ADAMS

These are times in which a genius would wish to live. It is not in the still calm of life, or the r...
ABIGAIL ADAMS

Deliver me from your cold phlegmatic preachers, politicians, friends, lovers and husbands.
ABIGAIL ADAMS

Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence.
ABIGAIL ADAMS

He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must ...
ABIGAIL ADAMS

I hate to complain...No one is without difficulties, whether in high or low life, and every person k...
ABIGAIL ADAMS

Learning is not attained by chance. It must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence...
ABIGAIL ADAMS

These are the times in which a genius would wish to live. It is not in the still calm of life, or th...
ABIGAIL ADAMS

I acknowledge myself a unitarian
ABIGAIL ADAMS

We have too many high-sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.
ABIGAIL ADAMS

...remember the ladies, and be more generous and favorable to them than your ancestors. Do not put s...
ABIGAIL ADAMS

It is not in the still calm of life, or the repose of a pacific station, that great characters are f...
ABIGAIL ADAMS

Learning is not attained by chance. It must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence.
ABIGAIL ADAMS

Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence.
ABIGAIL ADAMS

If particular care and attention is not paid to the ladies, we are determined to foment a rebellion,...
ABIGAIL ADAMS

If we mean to have heroes, statesmen and philosophers, we should have learned women.
ABIGAIL ADAMS

If particular care and attention is not paid to the ladies, we are determined to foment a rebellion,...
ABIGAIL ADAMS

Unless you paddle for the wave, you'll never know if you could catch it. But once you do... Ride...
ABIGAIL SPENCER

I am more and more convinced that man is a dangerous creature and that power, whether vested in many...
ABIGAIL ADAMS

Wisdom and penetration are the fruit of experience, not the lessons of retirement and leisure. Great...
ABIGAIL ADAMS

Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and diligence.
ABIGAIL ADAMS

Arbitrary power is like most other things which are very hard, very liable to be broken.
ABIGAIL ADAMS

Gratefulness is a double-edged sword. Because I think we've poured it into a feeling. And the ba...
ABIGAIL SPENCER

When a gentleman spends quite some time telling me in detail about his father's courtship of his mot...
ABIGAIL REYNOLDS

...remember the ladies, and be more generous and favorable to them than your ancestors. Do not put s...
ABIGAIL ADAMS

I begin to think, that a calm is not desirable in any situation in life....Man was made for action a...
ABIGAIL ADAMS

Great necessities call out great virtues.
ABIGAIL ADAMS

Great necessities call forth great leaders.
ABIGAIL ADAMS

We have too many high sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.
ABIGAIL ADAMS

Our practice (Thursday) night definitely was the reason why we played so well tonight. We were lacki...
ABIGAIL LAROSA

This is a complete and total victory for consumers.
ABIGAIL CAPLOVITZ

The industry has been trying to get around existing consumer protection provision by the way they se...
ABIGAIL CAPLOVITZ

From the perspective of consumer groups, it is legislation that basically allows the industry to con...
ABIGAIL CAPLOVITZ

It is really important to keep in mind that puberty is the biology of change and adolescence is the ...
ABIGAIL BAIRD

During the first year of college, students have many new experiences. They are faced with new cognit...
ABIGAIL BAIRD

I begin to think, that a calm is not desirable in any situation in life ... Man was made for action ...
ABIGAIL ADAMS

Yes, I know that now that there is truth in beauty and beauty in truth. My nature is to be depressiv...
ABIGAIL GEORGE

What do you want, MacGuffin, a duel?”
“No.” Julian held out both hands, one palm flat, th...
ABIGAIL ROUX

These are times in which a genius would wish to live. It is not in the still calm of life, or the re...
ABIGAIL ADAMS

Adventure, risk, and triumph is best learned from a piece of cream-filled, fried dough 1,200 miles f...
ABIGAIL NELSON

I would like to point out that while I have considerately remained composed during our discourse, I ...
ABIGAIL REYNOLDS

War and peace. There are blurred lines in the realities of both. A separation anxiety as the paradig...
ABIGAIL GEORGE

You know I'd follow you anywhere. Even if it's straight to Hell.
ABIGAIL ROUX

What about the animals?” Ty asked. “Who the hell needs this many dogs anyway?”
“What’...
ABIGAIL ROUX

The way black women say "girl" can be magical. Frankly, I have no solid beliefs about the survival o...
ABIGAIL PADGETT

Like water our ideals for writing what seems at first to be a calling to pen a masterpiece, it at fi...
ABIGAIL GEORGE

Wait!" she cried, and she yanked away from him and gathered her heels and her ruined
purse. She...
ABIGAIL ROUX

My bursting heart must find vent at my pen.
ABIGAIL ADAMS

A couple of years ago my sister Judy and I were each given a box of truffles. The tiny print said tw...
ABIGAIL THOMAS

There are those people who can eat one piece of chocolate, one piece of cake, drink one glass of win...
ABIGAIL THOMAS

This Saturday? As in tomorrow Saturday? We have to give lectures in twelve hours? We're not prepared...
ABIGAIL ROUX

We have too many high sounding words and too few actions that correspond with them.
ABIGAIL ADAMS

It takes strength to be proud of yourself and to accept yourself when you know that you have somethi...
ABIGAIL TARTTELIN

Napping is divine, but I no longer have all the time in the world.
ABIGAIL THOMAS

Either conquer the night, or become one of its conquests.
ABIGAIL BIDDINGER

I'm Catholic. I don't pray, I just ask for forgiveness after.
ABIGAIL ROUX

Someone would have to be out of their mind not to come back to you. I walked through a blizzard to g...
ABIGAIL ROUX

My father loved biographies. He loved the true tales of interesting people that were shaping our cul...
ABIGAIL SPENCER

Good kitty"
"Why do you encourage them?"
"They're good kitties."
"They're your minion...
ABIGAIL ROUX

The habits of a vigorous mind are born in contending with difficulties.
ABIGAIL ADAMS

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.

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Abigail Washburn

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

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