Quotes by Lizz Wright - Page 2

I have no ancestral link to the mountains. But I really do feel close to mountain culture. Their ways of food, of thinking. The way they hang out with no recording devices and just sing songs with each other.
Lizz Wright / Singer
Devices
Mountain
Ancestral
Link
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If we work on it, we can absolutely refuse any notion that suggests that after generations of contributing to this country, being a part of the bones and the marrow, that I'm supposed to be uncomfortable here.
Lizz Wright / Singer
Bones
Contributing
Generations
Marrow
Notion
Uncomfortable
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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 / Singer
Approach
Church
Different Approach
Gospel Music
Greater
Self
Singing
Tapping
Transcending
Gospel
Idea
Connects
Finding
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I don't think words always lead to meaning, but the things you can create with them are still pretty amazing. I've been really into Joni Mitchell, for example, but I've also been into some studio stuff, like Bjork.
Lizz Wright / Singer
For Example
Joni Mitchell
Mitchell
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Finally I started really opening up as a songwriter and an interpreter and taking songs from all kind of genres and stripping them down to just lyrics and the story inside the lyrics, and trying to make them really mine.
Lizz Wright / Singer
Opening Up
Song
Trying
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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 / Singer
Concrete
Invincible
Juice
Preacher
Giant
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I'm a real Otis Redding fan, and I just think he sounds so good. He sounds like he's always at the end of a long day, and he just won't give up. I just love his wearied devotion - that beautiful, beautiful, weathered sound.
Lizz Wright / Singer
Devotion
Long Day
Weathered
Love Good Beautiful
Redding
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Whoever is playing with me, they participate in the arrangement; I learned from Craig Street to really pool the stories and the skill and the voices of everybody around you on the bandstand to build an arrangement in the moment.
Lizz Wright / Singer
Pool
Arrangement
Bandstand
Craig
Participate
Skill
Voices
Whoever
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For me, I just want to sing about life. And since I come from a spiritual background, I turned to jazz, because I feel it's still sacred, like gospel. It's serious music, but it allows room to sing about so much other stuff as well.
Lizz Wright / Singer
Jazz
Sacred
Serious
Spiritual
Life Music Me
Background
Gospel
Room
Sing
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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 / Singer
Common Ground
Slavery
Conversations
Neighbors
Provided
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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 / Singer
Communication
Churning
Different Styles
Repetition
Response
Time Work Music
Pray
Time Work Communication
Gospel
Butter
Institution
Involves
Styles
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'Salt' is like this snapshot in midair, an action shot. It's about my relationship with the church, the classical and choral music that I dealt with in school, and my new introduction to jazz. It's very hard for me to listen to from beginning to end, because I hear how lost I was.
Lizz Wright / Singer
Introduction
Salt
Relationship Music Me
Classical
Dealt
Snapshot
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The church is an institution of music and of production and performance, and it has to do with taking people to places inside of themselves and giving them an opportunity to sit deep in their own feelings, and to be together and deeply alone at the same time, and to process things.
Lizz Wright / Singer
Alone Time Music
Institution
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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 / Singer
Florida
Georgia
Getting Older
Grandmother
Property
South
Stillness
Taught
Life My Life Feel
Above
Again
Begun
Loved
Older
Line
Missed
Realize
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My father was very strict, a very militant parent, because he wanted us to be very focused kids. He sold the televisions, so we didn't watch TV. And he didn't want any music playing that wasn't gospel or inspirational music. In fact, he didn't even like a lot of gospel because he thought it was too bluesy.
Lizz Wright / Singer
Inspirational
Focused
Militant
Parent
Strict
Gospel
Bluesy
In Fact
Sold
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I'm in love with the way that Ella Fitzgerald delivered a lyric. She would deliver a lyric with the kind of clarity that would make you wonder why it was written, and make you think about the writer. I think every writer hopes an Ella of any genre or anytime gets a hold of their work and works the song like that.
Lizz Wright / Singer
Clarity
Love Work Way
Anytime
Deliver
Ella
Fitzgerald
Hopes
Lyric
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I love talking to other musicians on tour and finding out what we all have to do, not just as artists but as business people. A lot of us are investing and trying to use social media. It is such an interesting level of responsibility and engagement on all these levels. I don't know how one can do this without absolute commitment and faith.
Lizz Wright / Singer
Engagement
Investing
Levels
Absolute
Business People
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