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
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
The church is an institution of music and of production and performance, and it has to do with taking people to places… — 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
Singing in church is a very different approach to music. It's very much about transcending the idea of self. It's about finding… — 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
The whole musical institution of the church involves a lot of different styles of communication at the same time. Things like call… — 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
What I like is not a particular genre, it's storytelling. There's a lot of great storytelling in jazz, and in folk and… — Lizz Wright Copy Share Image
I love talking to other musicians on tour and finding out what we all have to do, not just as artists but… — Lizz Wright Copy Share Image
'Salt' is like this snapshot in midair, an action shot. It's about my relationship with the church, the classical and choral music… — Lizz Wright Copy Share Image
I studied opera for a year at Georgia State University, but I wasn't interested in that meticulous, technical approach to music. So… — 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
I didn't wait around for my parents' opinion about my venture out into contemporary music. — 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
My father was very strict, a very militant parent, because he wanted us to be very focused kids. He sold the televisions,… — 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
Coming back to your calling. I can hear your voice say. Coming home for tomorrow from my dreams of yesterday. — Lizz Wright Copy Share Image
Tell me how to. Tell me how not to. Grab on to something new I looked my fate past through. — 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 from the… — Lizz Wright Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
