Lizz Wright famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

What I like is not a particular genre, it's storytelling. There's a lot of great storytelling in jazz, and in folk and in country music.
-- Lizz Wright

#Country #Jazz #Storytelling
I've followed my voice rather than forcing it to emerge.
-- Lizz Wright

#Voice
If I can make something real and it's appreciated and accessible to other people, I'm happy.
-- Lizz Wright

#Real #People #Appreciated
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

#Song #Opening Up #Trying
People are a lot more open than even they think they are. And I feel like I carry a heavy story about where I come from and those roots, but also what I like as a thinker.
-- Lizz Wright

#Thinking #Roots #People
I just want something that is real and that moves people. And just want to make something real.
-- Lizz Wright

#Real #Moving #Want Something
Just because I'm a recording artist doesn't mean I'm not an artist. Because I had to grow.
-- Lizz Wright

#Mean #Artist #Grows
I'm not angry. I can't sing that loud for that long anyway, I'll start coughing - I don't have the instrument for it. I don't feel that emotional. I'm at peace.
-- Lizz Wright

#Emotional #Long #Coughing

A country scratching a lazy irritation at sagging doorjambs and late trains, whose greatest attribute is a collective, smelly tolerance, where a chap will put up with almost everything, which means he won't care about anything enough to get out of a chair.A country of public insouciance and private, grubby guilt, where you can believe anything as long as you don't believe it too fervently. A country where the highest aspiration is for a quiet life.
American statesmen might like some Europeans more than others and even detect quaint resemblances to their own outlook; but they no more committed themselves to a particular group or country than a nineteenth-century missionary committed himself to the African tribe in which he happened to find himself.
We are apt to say that a foreign policy is successful only when the country, or at any rate the governing class, is united behind it. In reality, every line of policy is repudiated by a section, often by an influential section, of the country concerned. A foreign minister who waited until everyone agreed with him would have no foreign policy at all.
I am raising my voice as a citizen of the country. I don?t want to enter politics.
Josh: So, Toby, itâ€™s election night. What do you say about a country that goes out of its way to protect even those citizens that try to destroy it? Toby: God bless America.
Lately I've been listening to some classical music again, some jazz.
We must be as pure as our music.
I was considered as a jazz man rather than as a blues player. There were no blues players-you played one sort of jazz of another sort of jazz.
Is jazz a rhythm, or is it a vibration?
I've set the bar quite high in terms of storytelling.

Lizz Wright famous quotes

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