Lizz Wright

I want to record, tour, and just live life.

— Lizz Wright

I always want to do good work and enjoy doing it.

— Lizz Wright

I know how to make myself comfortable.

— Lizz Wright

'Moffou' is one of my favorite records.

— Lizz Wright

Salif Keita's one of my favorite artists.

— Lizz Wright

A taste of honey a taste much sweeter than wine.

— Lizz Wright

I come from a lineage of ministers.

— Lizz Wright

I get bored very quickly.

— Lizz Wright

As I grow older, I hope I can fully embody my grandmother's remarkable peace.

— Lizz Wright

Tell the sun not to shine. Not to get up this time. Let it fall by the way. Leave me where I…

— Lizz Wright

Just because I'm a recording artist doesn't mean I'm not an artist. Because I had to grow.

— Lizz Wright

I didn't wait around for my parents' opinion about my venture out into contemporary music.

— Lizz Wright

Hit the ground, babe. It�s alright now. Hit the ground babe. Take your veil down.

— Lizz Wright

I love songs that create moments that are very personal and that tell a story.

— Lizz Wright

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

— Lizz Wright

Life is good. It might not go the way we plan it, but that's fine. We just do what we can.

— Lizz Wright

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

— Lizz Wright

Coming home to your shelter. Coming home where I stay. I go down in your water and I won't turn away.

— Lizz Wright

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

In your eyes I read such strange things but your lips deny they're true. Will your answer really change things? Making me…

— Lizz Wright

I really just want an audience that is willing to let me live my life and share with them what I get…

— Lizz Wright

Tell me love isn�t true. It�s just something we do. Tell me everything I�m not. Don�t tell me to stop.

— Lizz Wright

By high school, I was putting the music for the services together and teaching Sunday school to everybody's kids.

— Lizz Wright

You may not understand me but I hear you so well. Your voice comes in the cold wind , a tune I…

— Lizz Wright

I have no ancestral link to the mountains. But I really do feel close to mountain culture. Their ways of food, of…

— Lizz Wright

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

'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

Finally I started really opening up as a songwriter and an interpreter and taking songs from all kind of genres and stripping…

— Lizz Wright

Whoever is playing with me, they participate in the arrangement; I learned from Craig Street to really pool the stories and 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…

— Lizz Wright

The whole musical institution of the church involves a lot of different styles of communication at the same time. Things like call…

— Lizz Wright

I'd listen to the radio, especially when my parents were out on house calls to pray for people - you know, shut-ins.…

— Lizz Wright

Surrender is working with what happens.

— Lizz Wright

I love singing all types of genres.

— Lizz Wright

I'm kind of a subtle person.

— Lizz Wright

I'll leave behind my heart to wear and may it ever remind you of...

— Lizz Wright

What I learned about singing in the church has gone into what I do now.

— Lizz Wright

I'm so grateful for just the inherent mercy of life.

— Lizz Wright

I've followed my voice rather than forcing it to emerge.

— Lizz Wright

Jazz has provided the framework for all the other stuff that I've done.

— Lizz Wright