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" I don't think words always lead to meaning, but the things you can create with them are still pretty amazing. I've been really into Joni Mitchell, for example, but I've also been into some studio stuff, like Bjork. "

Lizz Wright

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" I've always loved the woods, and I've always loved gardening and a lot of solitude and quiet. "

" Surrender is working with what happens. "

" Jazz has provided the framework for all the other stuff that I've done. "

" By high school, I was putting the music for the services together and teaching Sunday school to everybody's kids. "

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Lizz Wright

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" My mom has a couple great tricks, but my father is consistently a good cook. He's extremely avid about health and fitness and a bit obsessive. He always talks about garden-fresh food. "

" Music is primal: when it's done without pretension, you can really feel the shape of someone's soul. "

" I'm a real Otis Redding fan, and I just think he sounds so good. He sounds like he's always at the end of a long day, and he just won't give up. I just love his wearied devotion - that beautiful, beautiful, weathered sound. "

" I'd listen to the radio, especially when my parents were out on house calls to pray for people - you know, shut-ins. Sometimes, if we were incredibly sneaky, we could do it at night when everyone was asleep. "

" I studied opera for a year at Georgia State University, but I wasn't interested in that meticulous, technical approach to music. So I left school and went back to jazz. "

" I think of myself as an interpretative singer and a songwriter. "

" It's very hard for me to place myself alongside another artist. Everyone has something unique to express. "

Lizz Wright

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" I really just want an audience that is willing to let me live my life and share with them what I get out of my life. "

" I've always been genuinely interested in the spirit world. I've seen things I will never talk about because I'd be a fool to. You can't lay out that world in words. "

" I come from a family that has grown their own food from well into times of slavery, provided for themselves and people around them. So I found, through conversations about the earth and about the house with my neighbors, a lot of common ground. "

" Gardening is a working meditation for me. It helps me remember process, and it helps me remember patience. "

Lizz Wright

Gardening

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" I'm so grateful for just the inherent mercy of life. "

" If we work on it, we can absolutely refuse any notion that suggests that after generations of contributing to this country, being a part of the bones and the marrow, that I'm supposed to be uncomfortable here. "