Terri Lyne Carrington

thumb|Terri Lyne Carrington Terri Lyne Carrington (born 4 August 1964) is an American Jazz drummer, composer, promoter and educator. Quotes I’m a firm believer that if you provide instruments or other means of artistic expression, children will find their way the band is only as good as its drummer Even if I don’t know consciously all the gods and goddesses I am calling, I know they’re there We are a product of our times 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. Terri Lyne Carrington about Drumming n.d The Internet has made the world a lot smaller I find inspiration in daily life but not necessarily in other art forms Telling stories with instrumental music – an interview with Terri Lyne Carrington 24 July 2014 I would naturally stand up to any man we have to start talking outside of the binary Great people are ahead of their time in most cases We’re shifting the narrative so that, collectively, we can transform the culture until you have our ideal, jazz without patriarchy Terri Lyne Carrington Interview: Jazz Without Patriarchy, not ‘Women in Jazz’ 21 September 2022 With any minority group, marginalized communities, there’s extra labor Just as a woman in society, there’s extra burdens there If you have opportunity, you have to have something to back it up That’s one of the extra burdens that they should not have to carry: what kind of woman to be with women, there’s a balancing act. You have to fit in that we all have to expand in our thinking and expand in our hearing, expand in what we consider good jazz to be When you’re faced with progressive thinking, you have a choice to try to embrace it or to resist People have to have more empathy and have less desire for power, greed, all of those things we have to address within ourselves We know what to do. It’s just it takes work It takes more work to open space. It’s much easier to just be OK with things as they are, to follow the trends as they’ve been set and have everything status quo. But to be inclusive and to be radically inclusive, that’s going to take a lot more effort 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. Terri Lyne Carrington 23 August 2023 External links Category:Drummers from the United States Category:Jazz musicians Category:Composers from the United States Category:Women musicians Category:1964 births Category:Women born in the 1960s Category:Living people Category:African Americans Category:People from Massachusetts