100 Quotes by Rhiannon Giddens

You have to find the balance of figuring out how can I be effective? How can I use my platform for good, you know, without jeopardizing everything so that I don't have that platform anymore.

Music affects people in a way that bare facts can't.

I'm a North Carolina native. Grew up in North Carolina.

I couldn't stand the politics in opera.

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.

Being mixed in the South, that's a struggle that everybody deals with differently. Some people go careening to one side or the other, and some people try to walk a tightrope between the two. I grew up spending equal time with both sides of my family.

I think songs can have different lives.

When you sit at the feet of an elder, it changes you.

Every song has a heart, and I just go for that.