Lizz Wright Quotes

To me, soul music is anything that is made from the heart, and therefore moves the listener; it's not overly self-aware, and leaves room for the listener to make their own conclusions.

I think when people listen to music, they can truly feel authenticity. For me personally, as a listener, there's certain songs where I'm just like, 'Man, I know that person was really feeling that.'

If the music does not penetrate the heart, the soul, the mind, and the body... Then you ain't gon' feel it.

The soul is swayed by the waters.

And painted portraits have a life of their own that comes from deep in the soul of the painter and where the machine can't go.

You act with your soul. That's why you all want to be actors, because your souls are not used up by life.

I listen to the wind, the wind of my soul.

Reverence awakens in the soul a sympathetic power through which we attract qualities in the beings around us, which would otherwise remain concealed.

Immerse your soul in love.

For me, punk is about real feelings. It's not about, 'Yeah, I am a punk and I'm angry.' That's a lot of crap. It's about loving the things that really matter: passion, heart and soul.

True love wasn't found in good hair or the right clothes, make-up or shoes. True love was found in the soul - as was wisdom and compassion

Truth in art is the unity of a thing with itself: the outward rendered expressive of the inward: the soul made incarnate: the body instinct with spirit. For this reason there is no truth comparable to sorrow.

To touch the soul of another human being is to walk on holy ground.

I am a reflection of what I sing. Sometimes I have to get serious because the things Ive been through are serious.

When you pose for a photograph, it's behind a smile that isn't yours. You are angry and hungry and alive. What I value in you is that intensity. I want to make portraits as intense as people.

Our spirits have their own private way of understanding each other, of becoming intimate, while our external persons are still trapped in the commerce of ordinary words, in the slavery of social rules. Souls have their own needs and their own ambitions, which the body ignores when it sees that it's impossible to satisfy them or achieve them.

Music is the can-opener of the soul.

It is better to be passionate than to be tolerant at the expense of one's soul.

Anybody's true nature is bullshit. There is no human soul. Emotion is bullshit. Love is bullshit.

The absence of sentimentalism in Christ's relations with men is what makes His tenderness so exquisitely touching.

I spent my entire youth writing slowly with revisions and endless rehashing speculation and deleting and got so I was writing one sentence a day and the sentence had no FEELING. Goddamn it, FEELING is what I like in art, not CRAFTINESS and the hiding of feelings.

And silence. She liked the silence most of all. The silence in which the body, senses, the instincts, are more alert, more powerful, more sensitized, live a more richly perfumed and intoxication life, instead of transmuting into thoughts, words, into exquisite abstractions, mathematics of emotion in place of violent impact, the volcanic eruptions of fever, lust and delight.

A woman with a mind, a body with a soul. A heart full of love, that won't let go.

I believe that music surpasses even language in its power to mirror the innermost recesses of the human soul

Natural emotion is the soul of poetry, as melody is of music; the same faults are engendered by over-study of either art; there is a lack of sincerity, of irresistible impulse in both the poet and the, composer.