“Music affects people in a way that bare facts can't.” — Rhiannon Giddens Quote

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

“I'll talk about the banjo all day long and the history of minstrel shows.”

“There was such hostility to the idea of a banjo being a black instrument. It was co-opted by this white supremacist notion that old-time music was the inheritance of white America.”

“Right now, as I've gotten older, my tics sustain for five or ten years. So, I can deal with them on a daily basis; I know how it affects my body. But when you're 10 years old, and every three months a tic comes along, it's daunting because you don't know what the next one is going to look like, what it's going to feel like.”

“I'm interested in the way major events don't necessarily announce themselves as major events. They're often little things - the drip, drip of life that changes people or affects people.”