Lizz Wright Quotes

I grew up singing in church. I've been doing that since I was 3 years old. Singing was a blessing for me to do.

I just wanted to sing, in church or wherever.

Music was brought up in the church.

I grew up around a lot of church musicians.

I grew up singing in church as a little boy.

The most consistent musical experience I had growing up was church music.

I always loved music. I liked to go to church because I liked to sing the hymns.

People love to hear the choir sing the hymns.

I sang in the choir growing up and more recently served on the worship team at my church in California.

There is too much theology in the Church now, and too little of the Gospel.

I actually started singing in church when I was about five years old. I remember looking at the choirs and just hearing all of those great big beautiful voices. And there was this one woman who could just wail. And I remember trying to sing like her when I was like going home.

I listen to gospel music.

Being part of a community with a church at its centre and singin' hymns is a great thing to do.

As a little girl, I was in the church chorus.

My parents were in the local church choir, and I used to go along and sing and play the organ at all the weddings and christenings.

I actually grew up listening to music as like - church music and stuff like that.

I was raised in the church.

I auditioned for a solo in church and got it. I was about seven and I sang a song called, 'Jesus, I Heard You Had a Big House' and I remember people standing up at the end and me thinking, 'Oh, I think I'm going to like this.' That's how it all began. Sounds funny to say you got your start in church, but I did.

I grew up the son of a Seventh Day Adventist minister, so I was really close to the church and sang church music between sips at my bottle, you know? I sat on the piano bench next to my mother. She was the church organist, so that music is deeply inside of me.

I have a Bible study that my friends and I go to here in L.A. I go to church every Sunday. I've always been a believer. I love singing. I don't have the best voice - I just love getting my emotions out.

I grew up in the church, and I feel very strongly about it.

I've been singing forever; I grew up singing in church.

I believe that gospel is more than just a sound, it's a way of life. I don't really have any shame to talk about spirituality in my music. A lot of your favorite soul songs started out in gospel.

For me, when I grew up playing music, I played music in church and people were shouting and having a big time, and church wasn't something where it was subdued. If you played something, you brought it to church with you.

We'd just go to church and sing. My dad would get me and my sister Doris, and we would sing together. I sung the harmony, and my sister Doris took the lead.