Terri Lyne Carrington Quotes
born 1964 United States
Terri Lyne Carrington (born 4 August 1964) is an American Jazz drummer, composer, promoter and educator.
- United States
- Composers
- Drummers
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I find inspiration in daily life but not necessarily in other art forms
the last thing you want to do is ask people from a marginalized community to also educate you and also do part of your work.
Sound is energy, so the source of the sound - the person, not the instrument - is a source for healing, or not healing. rhythms are vibrations. Healing happens at a vibrational level.
We’re shifting the narrative so that, collectively, we can transform the culture until you have our ideal, jazz without patriarchy
People have to have more empathy and have less desire for power, greed, all of those things we have to address within ourselves
Great people are ahead of their time in most cases
When you’re faced with progressive thinking, you have a choice to try to embrace it or to resist
I’m a firm believer that if you provide instruments or other means of artistic expression, children will find their way
With any minority group, marginalized communities, there’s extra labor
If you have opportunity, you have to have something to back it up
Just as a woman in society, there’s extra burdens there
We know what to do. It’s just it takes work
That’s one of the extra burdens that they should not have to carry: what kind of woman to be
Even if I don’t know consciously all the gods and goddesses I am calling, I know they’re there
The Internet has made the world a lot smaller
I would naturally stand up to any man