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. Abigail Washburn More Quotes by Abigail Washburn More Quotes From Abigail Washburn 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. Abigail Washburn drive music space beauty 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. Abigail Washburn feel me pool world I would say I've always lived creativity, but now I - I do it with an intention that's got a completely different power. Abigail Washburn say always creativity power Martin Luther King's 'I Have a Dream' speech always sends me down some path, some trajectory of some creative idea. Abigail Washburn king down me path My parents played the radio, but music was never an obsession or something that I thought I could call a career. Abigail Washburn parents never thought music 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 down born time school I do get around. Geographically, that is. Abigail Washburn around get 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 feel think confused change I played piano and was always in the choir. I tried to play flute because all the pretty girls played flute. Abigail Washburn tried pretty always play 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. Abigail Washburn end best think doors I believe in music because it has the power of change. Abigail Washburn music change power believe
