I didn't wait around for my parents' opinion about my venture out into contemporary music. — Lizz Wright Around Copy Share Image
Just because I'm a recording artist doesn't mean I'm not an artist. Because I had to grow. — Lizz Wright Art Copy Share Image
Hit the ground, babe. It�s alright now. Hit the ground babe. Take your veil down. — Lizz Wright Veil Copy Share Image
I love songs that create moments that are very personal and that tell a story. — Lizz Wright Create Copy Share Image
As I grow older, I hope I can fully embody my grandmother's remarkable peace. — Lizz Wright Grandmother Copy Share Image
Tell the sun not to shine. Not to get up this time. Let it fall by the way. Leave me where I… — Lizz Wright Leave Copy Share Image
I think of myself as an interpretative singer and a songwriter. — Lizz Wright I think Copy Share Image
Cold winds may blow over icy seas. I'll take with me the warmth. — Lizz Wright Warmth 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 Communication 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 Confessing Copy Share Image
Music is primal: when it's done without pretension, you can really feel the shape of someone's soul. — Lizz Wright Done 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 Audience Copy Share Image
I think, as singers and performers, we are ambassadors of the human experience. I don't want to get bored just talking about… — Lizz Wright Experience Copy Share Image
Instead I keep on holding on I keep holding on. When I close my eyes I think about you. I just can�t… — Lizz Wright Holding Copy Share Image
As a southern woman, we often define ourselves by who we are with. But I wanted my life to be built differently. — Lizz Wright Differently Copy Share Image
I think living in a way that's close to nature makes you feel like that - makes you feel how thin the… — Lizz Wright Death 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
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
My father was very strict, a very militant parent, because he wanted us to be very focused kids. He sold the televisions,… — Lizz Wright Christianity 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 Alone 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 All kinds Copy Share Image
Whoever is playing with me, they participate in the arrangement; I learned from Craig Street to really pool the stories and the… — Lizz Wright Moment 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… — Lizz Wright Culture Copy Share Image
There's a lot of pressure that comes from the mainstream stuff, and already people who have been saying - people who don't… — Lizz Wright Better Copy Share Image
Jazz has provided the framework for all the other stuff that I've done. — Lizz Wright Done Copy Share Image
I'll leave behind my heart to wear and may it ever remind you of... — Lizz Wright Remind Copy Share Image
What I learned about singing in the church has gone into what I do now. — Lizz Wright About Copy Share Image
Life is good. It might not go the way we plan it, but that's fine. We just do what we can. — Lizz Wright Go Copy Share Image
Old man take a look at my life. I'm a lot like you. I need someone to love me the whole day… — Lizz Wright Life 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 Feel Copy Share Image
My mom has a couple great tricks, but my father is consistently a good cook. He's extremely avid about health and fitness… — Lizz Wright Cook 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 Church Copy Share Image
I'm afraid someday you'll leave me. Saying can we still be friends. If you go, you know you'll grieve me. All in… — Lizz Wright Friendship Copy Share Image
Old man look at my life, Twenty four and there�s so much more. Live alone in a paradise. That makes me think… — Lizz Wright Life Copy Share Image
They don�t fall fall from the tree and they don�t drop not when you�re counting or maybe that�s my sweet philosophy. Yeah,… — Lizz Wright Drop Copy Share Image
Gardening is a working meditation for me. It helps me remember process, and it helps me remember patience. — Lizz Wright Flower Copy Share Image
You may not understand me but I hear you so well. Your voice comes in the cold wind , a tune I… — Lizz Wright Cold wind Copy Share Image