Best quotes by Lizz Wright on Music

Checkout quotes by Lizz Wright on Music

• ‟ I let the song guide me. I move through the space that I'm given rather than trying to make an impression on the material. I'm curious to learn from the music.

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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.

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• ‟ I studied opera for a year at Georgia State University, but I wasn't interested in that meticulous, technical approach to music. So I left school and went back to jazz.

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

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• ‟ Music is primal: when it's done without pretension, you can really feel the shape of someone's soul.

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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.

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• ‟ Where I come from, music is not a business. Sharing music is a business, but music is not a business. It comes from the people and belongs to the people.

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

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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.

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