Jazz has provided the framework for all the other stuff that I've done. — Lizz Wright Copy Share Image
I love songs that create moments that are very personal and that tell a story. — Lizz Wright Copy Share Image
At 16, I was going to church and playing music for church, and Dad would only pay for piano lessons so I… — Lizz Wright Copy Share Image
By high school, I was putting the music for the services together and teaching Sunday school to everybody's kids. — Lizz Wright Copy Share Image
Music is primal: when it's done without pretension, you can really feel the shape of someone's soul. — Lizz Wright Copy Share Image
Jazz has a lot to do with being very present. You know the structure, then you flow through it. — Lizz Wright Copy Share Image
I'm a real Otis Redding fan, and I just think he sounds so good. He sounds like he's always at the end… — Lizz Wright Copy Share Image
Where I fit genre-wise, it's hard to tell. It's a fickle wind. But I have to believe there's always going to be… — Lizz Wright Copy Share Image
Where I come from, music is not a business. Sharing music is a business, but music is not a business. It comes… — Lizz Wright Copy Share Image
I let the song guide me. I move through the space that I'm given rather than trying to make an impression on… — Lizz Wright Copy Share Image
Finally I started really opening up as a songwriter and an interpreter and taking songs from all kind of genres and stripping… — Lizz Wright Copy Share Image
I never left jazz. The relationship between structure and improvisation - that constant conversation and tension - I've always wanted in every… — Lizz Wright Copy Share Image
There's a beautiful, kind of seductive trap in being autobiographical in our writing of songs: We just get stuck in our own… — Lizz Wright Copy Share Image
For me, I just want to sing about life. And since I come from a spiritual background, I turned to jazz, because… — Lizz Wright Copy Share Image
I'm in love with the way that Ella Fitzgerald delivered a lyric. She would deliver a lyric with the kind of clarity… — Lizz Wright Copy Share Image
I am more prolific when I have something to respond to. I get my juice from people and real stories and things that seem… — Lizz Wright Copy Share
I can see you through any darkness. Your light it leads me on. I'm coming back to your orchard. Coming back to my home. — Lizz Wright Copy Share
At 16, I was going to church and playing music for church, and Dad would only pay for piano lessons so I could play… — Lizz Wright Copy Share
Coming back to your calling. I can hear your voice say. Coming home for tomorrow from my dreams of yesterday. — Lizz Wright Copy Share
Tell me how to. Tell me how not to. Grab on to something new I looked my fate past through. — Lizz Wright Copy Share
Where I come from, music is not a business. Sharing music is a business, but music is not a business. It comes from the… — Lizz Wright Copy Share
We had no television, and I only heard the radio when my parents went out to a Bible study group. They liked a quiet,… — Lizz Wright Copy Share
In your eyes I read such strange things but your lips deny they're true. Will your answer really change things? Making me blue. — Lizz Wright Copy Share
I have no ancestral link to the mountains. But I really do feel close to mountain culture. Their ways of food, of thinking. The… — Lizz Wright Copy Share
The church is an institution of music and of production and performance, and it has to do with taking people to places inside of… — Lizz Wright Copy Share
Tell the bed not to lay. Like the mouth of a grave. Not to stare up at me. Like a calf on its knees. — Lizz Wright Copy Share
As a southern woman, we often define ourselves by who we are with. But I wanted my life to be built differently. — Lizz Wright Copy Share
No matter what happens, I can go back to the mountains. I have nature and my wonderful friends and neighbors. I get so much… — Lizz Wright Copy Share
I just want something that is real and that moves people. And just want to make something real. — Lizz Wright Copy Share
