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Lizz Wright
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
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
So many great singers we know have come from the church. Lizz Wright
Great Church Come Know Singers Many
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