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" 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. "

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" I think, as singers and performers, we are ambassadors of the human experience. I don't want to get bored just talking about myself. "

Lizz Wright

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" 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

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

" 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. "

" Where I come from, music is not a business. Sharing music is a business, but music is not a business. It comes from the people and belongs to the people. "

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

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

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

" I didn't wait around for my parents' opinion about my venture out into contemporary music. "

" I'm kind of a subtle person. "

" I come from a lineage of ministers. "

" 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. "

" There's a lot of pressure that comes from the mainstream stuff, and already people who have been saying - people who don't know any better - have been saying things to me like, 'You should really think about neosoul. You'd definitely be more successful in that.' But that's not my expression. "

" We had no television, and I only heard the radio when my parents went out to a Bible study group. They liked a quiet, meditative house. "

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

" I know how to make myself comfortable. "

" 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. "

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

" 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 let the song guide me. I move through the space that I'm given rather than trying to make an impression on the material. I'm curious to learn from the music. "

Lizz Wright

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

Lizz Wright

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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 always want to do good work and enjoy doing it. "

" 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. "

" Everyone I perform and tour with looks out for each other; we ensure we stay healthy. "

" 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. "

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