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I grew up listening to country music. I got into traditional stuff later, but I listened to the commercial stuff of the '90s, especially the women who were so strong, like Mary Chapin Carpenter and Kathy Mattea. It's a great art form. – Rhiannon Giddens Famous Quote	added 4 years ago
I think it's important that everybody has access to music, and not just people who live in cities or who can afford to drive to the nearest city. – Rhiannon Giddens Famous Quote	added 4 years ago
It's really funny how I've come round to classical music around the back door with my banjo in my hand, and I love it. – Rhiannon Giddens Famous Quote	added 4 years ago
Separation in culture and arts does nobody any favors except for the people in power. That's just it... So I feel like I'm in the business of challenging that narrative. – Rhiannon Giddens Famous Quote	added 4 years ago
For me the bare feet are grounding. I'm connected to the Earth in a way that I cannot be any other way. – Rhiannon Giddens Famous Quote	added 4 years ago
My dad's white, my mom's black, and I've struggled with being mixed race. – Rhiannon Giddens Famous Quote	added 4 years ago
I would be thrilled with anybody who cites my work as something that inspired them. – Rhiannon Giddens Famous Quote	added 4 years ago
I'm still black in the eyes of America. – Rhiannon Giddens Famous Quote	added 4 years ago
My work as a whole is about excavating and shining a light on pieces of history that not only need to be seen and heard, but that can also add to the conversation about what's going on now. – Rhiannon Giddens Famous Quote	added 4 years ago
I'm not gonna force something or fake something to try to get more black people at my shows. I'm not gonna do some big hip-hop crossover. – Rhiannon Giddens Famous Quote	added 4 years ago
Each song has its own way that it likes to be done, but it can be more than one way. If you tap into it, you can feel it. – Rhiannon Giddens Famous Quote	added 4 years ago
I'm a North Carolina native. Grew up in North Carolina. – Rhiannon Giddens Famous Quote	added 4 years ago
At some point you have to take responsibility for who you are and where you are and being able to listen to other points of view, whichever side of the tracks you're on. – Rhiannon Giddens Famous Quote	added 4 years ago
I decided to study music my last year in high school. – Rhiannon Giddens Famous Quote	added 4 years ago
So my mom's folks are from one side of Greensboro - and, you know, outside of Greensboro. And my dad's folks, the white side, is from another very small town outside of Greensboro. So both sides are coming from the country. – Rhiannon Giddens Famous Quote	added 4 years ago
Well, you know, the original banjos were all handmade instruments. Gourd - it would be made with gourds and whatever, you know, materials would have been around. And, you know, first hundred years of its existence, the banjo's known as a plantation instrument, as a black instrument. – Rhiannon Giddens Famous Quote	added 4 years ago
When I first heard the minstrel banjo - I played a gourd first - I almost lost my mind. I was like, Oh, my god. And then I went to Africa, to the Gambia, and studied the akonting, which is an ancestor of the banjo, and just that connection to me was just immense. – Rhiannon Giddens Famous Quote	added 4 years ago
Getting into the banjo and discovering that it was an African-American instrument, it totally turned on its head my idea of American music - and then, through that, American history. – Rhiannon Giddens Famous Quote	added 4 years ago
I love the U.K. folk scene. In the States, nobody knows what to do with me. There's still a very narrow definition of Americana. – Rhiannon Giddens Famous Quote	added 4 years ago
People say, I'm tired of thinking about race, it's a drag. Yeah, well, welcome to my life! I don't care who you are. We have the time and the headspace for this stuff. The least you can do is take a moment. – Rhiannon Giddens Famous Quote	added 4 years ago
I started singing as a hobby, but the minute I started, I knew that I loved it. – Mary Wilson Famous Quote	added 4 years ago
We did have some difficult times. Really, there were more good times than bad. I've been honest about a lot of the things that happened and the truth is, I have more good memories than bad ones. – Mary Wilson Famous Quote	added 4 years ago
A child is born to a welfare case/ Where the rats run around like they own the place/ The room is chilly, the building is old/ That's how it goes/ A doctor's found on his welfare rounds/ And he comes and he leaves on the double – Gordon Lightfoot Famous Quote	added 4 years ago
The radio makes hideous sounds. – Bob Dylan Famous Quote	added 4 years ago

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