Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App

" I love talking to other musicians on tour and finding out what we all have to do, not just as artists but as business people. A lot of us are investing and trying to use social media. It is such an interesting level of responsibility and engagement on all these levels. I don't know how one can do this without absolute commitment and faith. "

Related Quotes:

" I live just above a creek, and it's always very active. It almost sounds like the ocean. It's constant, and there's lots of big rocks in it, so it's got a great sound. It's one of my favorite things. "

Lizz Wright

Live

Rocks

Sound

" The women and the men are teachers and preachers in my family, and a little bit of both those fell on me. "

" I love songs that create moments that are very personal and that tell a story. "

" I've begun to realize, as I'm getting older, that I was taught to go for a certain kind of stillness to get things done. I missed that in my life. I loved my grandmother's property, out in South Georgia right above the Florida line, so I just thought I'd find some property where I could feel that again. "

" For me, I just want to sing about life. And since I come from a spiritual background, I turned to jazz, because I feel it's still sacred, like gospel. It's serious music, but it allows room to sing about so much other stuff as well. "

Lizz Wright

Spiritual

Serious

" The truth is, when you want a great show, it's not 'entertaining' the audience - it's you sharing with them... an experience of communion. "

" I call myself a singer-songwriter influenced by the gospel and jazz tradition. Naturally, because of my lifestyle and love for nature, there's a lot of folk and Americana there because that's just my life. "

" I'd been trained in choral, gospel, and a little bit of opera. "

" As I grow older, I hope I can fully embody my grandmother's remarkable peace. "

" Jazz has a lot to do with being very present. You know the structure, then you flow through it. "

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

" 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 living in a way that's close to nature makes you feel like that - makes you feel how thin the veil is between life and death. "

" I'm a preacher's kid, I'm big-boned, I have giant feet, and I've always been able to run fast, and so I had this sense of, 'I can't fail. I'm invincible. I'm made of green juice and concrete; nothing's gonna happen to me.' "

" I have no ancestral link to the mountains. But I really do feel close to mountain culture. Their ways of food, of thinking. The way they hang out with no recording devices and just sing songs with each other. "

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

" A lot of people in the African-American community are raised by grandmothers, and that relationship is a special bond and circle. "

" At 16, I was going to church and playing music for church, and Dad would only pay for piano lessons so I could play at church. "

" I am more prolific when I have something to respond to. I get my juice from people and real stories and things that seem common but are amazing. "

Lizz Wright

People

Real

" The whole musical institution of the church involves a lot of different styles of communication at the same time. Things like call and response. Sometimes they use the music to pray and work things out. And there's so much repetition in gospel, it's like churning butter. "

" There's a beautiful, kind of seductive trap in being autobiographical in our writing of songs: We just get stuck in our own syrup, and it's so personal that it almost can be embarrassing to the listener. "

" As a southern woman, we often define ourselves by who we are with. But I wanted my life to be built differently. "

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

" Salif Keita's one of my favorite artists. "

Lizz Wright

Favorite

Artists

" I come from a lineage of ministers. "

" No matter what happens, I can go back to the mountains. I have nature and my wonderful friends and neighbors. I get so much by being there. "

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

Lizz Wright

Gardening

Helps

" Making a record and being a touring artist is about cooperation between spirit, craft, emotion, and focus. "

" I love singing all types of genres. "

" 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. "