Choral Quotes by Lizz Wright

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

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

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

Coming back to your calling. I can hear your voice say. Coming home for tomorrow from my dreams of yesterday.

— Lizz Wright

Tell me how to. Tell me how not to. Grab on to something new I looked my fate past through.

— Lizz Wright

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

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

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

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

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

I'm kind of a subtle person.

— Lizz Wright

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

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

— Lizz Wright

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

I just want something that is real and that moves people. And just want to make something real.

— Lizz Wright