Lizz Wright Quotes

I love working with Alicia Keys, because it's not just the ability to do the dance to me; I think it's the ability to interpret it that excites me the most.

I just want to act. I just want to do the work.

I can concentrate on my art.

I just do what I'm here for and that's to make that music.

I enjoy acting, and I appreciate people who have passion about what they're doing and have a vision about the film they're trying to make.

I suppose that Paderewski can play superbly, if not quite at his best, while his thoughts wander to the other end of the world, orpossibly busy themselves with a computation of the receipts as he gazes out across the auditorium. I know a great actor, a master technician, can let his thoughts play truant from the scene.

I start a picture and I finish it.

When you're writing fiction or poetry... it really comes down to this: indifference to everything except what you're doing... A young writer could do worse than follow the advice given in those lines.

I like messing around, and I like working with artists who I respect.

I look at the dancers and I get the inspiration for the work from them.

Ray had so much love of life and the music. He had so much integrity. He treated the music with so much dignity and respect. I spent four and a half years as a sideman with Ray Brown's trio. Music was his life, more so than anyone I could mention.

I'm an entertainer, so in whatever form I entertain... The thing about being a rapper is that you have more control over your form, whereas with acting you have to compromise a lot.

I guess something people wouldn't expect me to listen to are artists like Alicia Keys. But she is so incredibly talented. She has this huge voice and great work ethic, which I really respect in an artist. She is also very humble and gracious and devoted to her skill.

The most difficult thing about painting is the self-discipline. When I finish a job, I give myself a few days, but then I have to discipline myself quite fiercely if I want to do some painting that's worthwhile. Otherwise, you're just doodling. It's much easier when you're just told what you have to do.

I got to work with Jennifer Tilly, she was amazing. Such, such a smart actress.

Songwriting is the other weight on the opposite side of the scale from touring. They balance me out creatively.

I always tell myself, 'When I'm working on my record, I won't cut my hair.' I get so focused on the music that I'm not really going to the hair shop and getting cut up. I just have one thing to focus on.

I love songwriting. It's second to my love for singing in how I express myself.

Composing for movies is not an easy job - its a different art altogether, and moreover, I don't want to get involved in too many things at one time and want to concentrate on my shows and albums.

If you give it good concentration, good energy, good heart and good performance, the song will play you.

I think the challenges for me was to go into the studio with these incredible jazz players and come up to their level of excellence. That's always a challenge.

Michael Jackson was the biggest star the world has ever seen - he put so much into everything; a lot of attention to detail. I want to do that. I want to pay that kind of attention to detail in everything - in music, visually - all of that.

All great composers of the past spent most of their time studying. Feeling alone won't do the job. A man also needs technique.

I just to put out the best records I can and perform the best I can.

My focus is trying to make great music and putting on great shows, and whatever happens beyond that is a bonus to me.