What I learned about singing in the church has gone into what I do now. — Lizz Wright About Copy Share Image
Jazz has provided the framework for all the other stuff that I've done. — Lizz Wright Done Copy Share Image
Making a record and being a touring artist is about cooperation between spirit, craft, emotion, and focus. — Lizz Wright Art Copy Share Image
People are a lot more open than even they think they are. And I feel like I carry a heavy story about… — Lizz Wright Feels 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 Christianity Copy Share Image
I'm not angry. I can't sing that loud for that long anyway, I'll start coughing - I don't have the instrument for… — Lizz Wright Angry Copy Share Image
When I close my eyes I can almost taste you. I can�t face you. You�re still too strong and it�s no surprise. — 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 Beautiful Copy Share Image
I really just want an audience that is willing to let me live my life and share with them what I get… — Lizz Wright Audience 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 Church 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 High 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 Clarity Copy Share Image
Everyone I perform and tour with looks out for each other; we ensure we stay healthy. — Lizz Wright Everyone 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 Church Copy Share Image
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… — Lizz Wright Big 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 Curious Copy Share Image
The truth is, when you want a great show, it's not 'entertaining' the audience - it's you sharing with them... an experience… — Lizz Wright Experience Copy Share Image
I'm confessing that I love you. Tell me do you love me too? I'm confessing that I need you. Honest I do… — Lizz Wright Every moment Copy Share Image
It's hard to know who you are until you're cracked open a little bit. — Lizz Wright Hard 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 Country 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 Art Copy Share Image
