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Lizz Wright
American
Musician
Born:
Jan 22
,
1980
Jazz
Life
Me
Music
People
You
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I love songs that create moments that are very personal and that tell a story.
Lizz Wright
Love
Love Songs
Tell
Songs
Very
Personal
Story
Create
Moments
Gardening is a working meditation for me. It helps me remember process, and it helps me remember patience.
Lizz Wright
Me
Patience
Gardening
Remember
Meditation
Process
Working
Helps
Singing in church is a very different approach to music. It's very much about transcending the idea of self. It's about finding something greater that connects all of us. Gospel music is about tapping into that.
Lizz Wright
Music
Church
Singing
Gospel Music
Approach
Finding
About
Something
Self
Idea
Gospel
Greater
Tapping
Very
Different
Transcending
Different Approach
Us
Much
Connects
I think living in a way that's close to nature makes you feel like that - makes you feel how thin the veil is between life and death.
Lizz Wright
Life
Death
Nature
You
Living
Think
Way
Life And Death
Veil
Feel
Between
Like
Makes
How
Close
Thin
It's hard to know who you are until you're cracked open a little bit.
Lizz Wright
You
Bit
Open
Know
Until
Cracked
Little
Little Bit
Hard
Who
No matter what happens, I can go back to the mountains. I have nature and my wonderful friends and neighbors. I get so much by being there.
Lizz Wright
Nature
Wonderful
Matter
Mountains
Back
Neighbors
Go
Friends
Get
Being
Happens
Much
Being There
I come from a family that has grown their own food from well into times of slavery, provided for themselves and people around them. So I found, through conversations about the earth and about the house with my neighbors, a lot of common ground.
Lizz Wright
Food
Family
People
Own
Earth
Neighbors
About
Through
Come
House
Well
Around
Provided
Lot
Times
Common
Common Ground
Conversations
Them
Themselves
Ground
Found
Grown
Slavery
By high school, I was putting the music for the services together and teaching Sunday school to everybody's kids.
Lizz Wright
Music
Together
School
Sunday
Everybody
Kids
Sunday School
High
High School
Putting
Teaching
Services
Where I fit genre-wise, it's hard to tell. It's a fickle wind. But I have to believe there's always going to be a place for the songs inside of me.
Lizz Wright
Me
Wind
Fickle
Believe
Tell
Inside
Songs
Always
Fit
Going
Where
Place
Hard
I see 'Grace' as an affectionate refusal of things that just aren't true. With all our power and money and influence, we still can't raise up high over people's consciousness.
Lizz Wright
People
Grace
Money
Power
Our
High
See
True
Over
Still
Affectionate
Up
Just
Refusal
Influence
Things
Consciousness
Raise
There's a beautiful, kind of seductive trap in being autobiographical in our writing of songs: We just get stuck in our own syrup, and it's so personal that it almost can be embarrassing to the listener.
Lizz Wright
Beautiful
Writing
Own
Our
Syrup
Embarrassing
Kind
Seductive
Stuck
Songs
Almost
Get
Personal
Listener
Autobiographical
Just
Being
Trap
I'm a preacher's kid, I'm big-boned, I have giant feet, and I've always been able to run fast, and so I had this sense of, 'I can't fail. I'm invincible. I'm made of green juice and concrete; nothing's gonna happen to me.'
Lizz Wright
Me
Made
Sense
Nothing
Kid
Giant
Run
Able
Had
Fail
Invincible
Feet
Always
Concrete
Juice
Been
Preacher
Green
Happen
Gonna
Fast
The women and the men are teachers and preachers in my family, and a little bit of both those fell on me.
Lizz Wright
Family
Me
Women
Men
Bit
Those
Both
Fell
Preachers
Little
Little Bit
Teachers
Salif Keita's one of my favorite artists.
Lizz Wright
Favorite
Artists
Music is primal: when it's done without pretension, you can really feel the shape of someone's soul.
Lizz Wright
Music
You
Soul
Pretension
Someone
Shape
Primal
Feel
Without
Done
Really
Everyone I perform and tour with looks out for each other; we ensure we stay healthy.
Lizz Wright
Healthy
Other
Everyone
Ensure
Out
Stay
Tour
Perform
Looks
Each
The whole musical institution of the church involves a lot of different styles of communication at the same time. Things like call and response. Sometimes they use the music to pray and work things out. And there's so much repetition in gospel, it's like churning butter.
Lizz Wright
Work
Music
Time
Communication
Sometimes
Church
Musical
Churning
Out
Response
Institution
Like
Involves
Call
Gospel
Styles
Pray
Lot
Repetition
Same
Same Time
Different
Much
Use
Whole
Different Styles
Butter
Things
I've begun to realize, as I'm getting older, that I was taught to go for a certain kind of stillness to get things done. I missed that in my life. I loved my grandmother's property, out in South Georgia right above the Florida line, so I just thought I'd find some property where I could feel that again.
Lizz Wright
Life
Property
Getting Older
Stillness
Thought
My Life
Older
Out
Kind
Find
Some
Above
Could
Feel
Missed
Go
Line
South
Georgia
Begun
Get
Done
Getting
Just
Taught
Where
Loved
Again
Realize
Grandmother
Certain
Right
Things
Florida
Making a record and being a touring artist is about cooperation between spirit, craft, emotion, and focus.
Lizz Wright
Focus
Record
Spirit
About
Emotion
Touring
Between
Making
Craft
Artist
Being
Cooperation
I think, as singers and performers, we are ambassadors of the human experience. I don't want to get bored just talking about myself.
Lizz Wright
Myself
Experience
Think
Bored
About
Performers
Singers
Talking
Ambassador
Get
Human
Just
Want
Human Experience
I call myself a singer-songwriter influenced by the gospel and jazz tradition. Naturally, because of my lifestyle and love for nature, there's a lot of folk and Americana there because that's just my life.
Lizz Wright
Life
Love
Myself
Nature
My Life
Jazz
Folk
Lifestyle
Singer-Songwriter
Call
Gospel
Because
Tradition
Lot
Just
Influenced
Naturally
Americana
We had no television, and I only heard the radio when my parents went out to a Bible study group. They liked a quiet, meditative house.
Lizz Wright
Bible
Parents
Group
Television
Out
Only
Had
Study
Liked
House
Heard
Quiet
Radio
I've always been genuinely interested in the spirit world. I've seen things I will never talk about because I'd be a fool to. You can't lay out that world in words.
Lizz Wright
You
Fool
Words
World
Will
Seen
Out
Spirit
Spirit World
About
Lay
Never
Talk
Because
Genuinely
Always
Been
Interested
Things
I love singing all types of genres.
Lizz Wright
Love
Singing
Types
Genres
Life is good. It might not go the way we plan it, but that's fine. We just do what we can.
Lizz Wright
Life
Good
Way
Fine
Go
Just
Might
Plan
My mom has a couple great tricks, but my father is consistently a good cook. He's extremely avid about health and fitness and a bit obsessive. He always talks about garden-fresh food.
Lizz Wright
Fitness
Health
Good
Food
Mom
Great
Father
Extremely
Bit
Consistently
Tricks
About
He
Obsessive
Couple
Talks
Always
Cook
Avid
Good Cook
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