Lizz Wright Quotes

My favorite thing in the world is telling stories, and most of what I do is telling stories through music.

I really get that some people like the roots-rock, storytelling thing that I was doing, and I'm proud of that.

We need storytelling. Otherwise life just goes on and on, like the number Pi.

I get some flak for and some resistance from colleagues for because I'm interested in storytelling. I mean what I like about songwriting is songs used to tell a story.

Storytelling is the game. It's what we all do.

I always thought storytelling was like juggling [...] You keep a lot of different tales in the air, and juggle them up and down, and if you're good you don't drop any.

I make no distinction between writing and storytelling; I've always wanted to tell stories.

The bedrock thing of country music is, it's about storytelling. I feel like I was able to find a niche because I connected to that in some way.

You're never going to kill storytelling, because it's built into the human plan. We come with it.

I guess my favorite artists are The White Stripes or Tom Waits. The more theatrical the music is, the more I get into it. I also like the quieter folk music, that kind of old-school rockabilly or country. I'm not really picky when it comes to music, as long as it's honest.

I'm just a story teller.

Storytelling is the important thing.

I'm done with industrial. Seriously, my iPod collection at home has no industrial music on it; it's strictly jazz, blues and country.

My parents' generation was definitely pre-telly, and they knew how to entertain each other. Everybody knew something that they could do - a song or a poem, or a piece of music. At school, I remember being a cat and then a budgie and then a bumble bee. I obviously thought all that was marvelous.

I do notice that I spend a lot of all my time steeped in different forms of myth, such as English folk music, for example, not really studying it necessarily, but just trying to experience it so I can recall it later.

Country and western is ignored by the intellectuals. They don't look at it as an art form. They think it's just somebody sitting on his couch singing about his life.

Humanity's legacy of stories and storytelling is the most precious we have. All wisdom is in our stories and songs. A story is how we construct our experiences. At the very simplest, it can be: 'He/she was born, lived, died.' Probably that is the template of our stories - a beginning, middle, and end. This structure is in our minds.

I like to listen the blues and some classical.

I don't want to be remembered as a writer. I would rather be remembered as a storyteller.

It's kind of odd when you think of Loretta Lynn, when she was first traveling and recording country music. It was all built through word of mouth. If you pleased the fans, they would pass it around to their friends and family.

I'm a storyteller.

One of the things that I think is such a constant in country music is that the song is so much a story. I believe it is supposed to be based around a story.

I love all sorts of music. I'm really into Damian Rice and Amos Lee.

My parents were both storytellers. They always spoke with metaphorical richness.

I don't limit my taste. There's some jazz that I like and there's some opera. I've been listening to what was essentially country music, but it crossed over to rock.