Gospel Music Quotes

I come from an African Caribbean background. I've been influenced by a reggae church music style, contemporary gospel, and rock all fused together. — Laura Mvula

Gospel music allows us to become closer to God and closer to each other. — Marvin Sapp

Gospel music rhythms are not African in origin, although I know that's what the jazz experts say. — Mahalia Jackson

Country music is so related to gospel. It seems I could go down that road pretty easily. — Dionne Warwick

If kids say I'm just a gospel rapper, I won't be able to get in their cars. — MC Hammer

To me, Gospel music is really any music that's a testimony and tells a story of what God has done in your life. — Laura Allen

My heart is still there in gospel music. It never left ... I'm gonna make a gospel record and tell Jesus I cannot bear these burdens alone. — Aretha Franklin

I listen to gospel music. — Mary J. Blige

I feel most alive when I'm singing along to old gospel music. — Judith Hill

I grew up in the church, singing in choirs, and I went to a performing arts school, and I had a gospel group, so music has always been in my blood. — Tweet

The most effective preaching of the gospel is when it is accompanied by beautiful, appropriate music. — Harold B. Lee

I always loved Sam Cooke, because he seemed very versatile. He sang gospel, soul, blues, pop music. — Aaron Neville

I was definitely inspired by gospel music, or old-school R&B; I got into some Good God gospel compilations. — Yannis Philippakis

I have been singing gospel music since I was four years old. — Marvin Sapp

I've grown up on gospel and blues music, and now it's a huge part of who I am. — Benjamin Booker

Gospel music is the purest thing there is on this earth. — Elvis Presley

Gospel music is never pessimistic, it's never 'oh my god, its all going down the tubes', like the blues often is. — Brian Eno

We weren't allowed to have secular music in the house growing up. I was home-schooled, and gospel was the only choice we had. — John Legend

If you're not hearing the music of the gospel in your home, please remember these two words: keep practicing. — Wilford W. Andersen

I'm associated with gospel music in the minds of millions of people. — Pat Boone

It is secular spiritual music, the gospel blues. It's music from the heart instead of the head. — Charlie Musselwhite

If our lives are out of tune with the music of the gospel, we must tune them up. — Wilford W. Andersen

The music I love to sing would have to be gospel - it just uplifts me, it takes me to a really good place. — Jacob Lusk

And whether you're drawn to gospel music or church music or honky-tonk music, it informs your character and it informs your talent. — Bruce Springsteen

Well, I loved singing in the chorus, and there was some connection for me between gospel and choral music. — Neil Diamond

I enjoy bluegrass, folk, gospel, and classical. I don't listen to music when I write. I sometimes listen to music just before I sit down to write. — Kent Haruf

Gospel music is so ingrained into my bones. I can't do a concert without singing a gospel song. It's what I was raised on. — Johnny Cash

Plantation gospel music was the stuff I fell in love with when I was a kid - these beautiful melodies and these hard, hard stories. — Bobby Womack

Music is the 5th gospel. — Martin Luther

People love gospel music. It's calming. It's soothing. It gets right to the point of whatever you're dealing with. — Yolanda Adams

I think in music there is just something inherently spiritual in singing together and harmonizing, and gospel is the truest form of that. — Luke Pritchard

That's the fantasy dream project, to collaborate with someone who preaches the gospel of art through music. — Frances Stark

Gospel music always relaxes me and calms my nerves. — Gabby Douglas