Mahalia Quotes: top 38 famous quotes about Mahalia

Mahalia Quotes & Sayings

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Growing up in Cleveland, I learned about singing from my mother, who had once sung professionally and who admired Mahalia Jackson and Aretha Franklin. — Tracy Chapman

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

Sometimes you ask God for something and you don't know what you're asking. — Mahalia Jackson

Someday the sun is going to shine down on me in some faraway place. — Mahalia Jackson

I close my eyes when I sing so I can feel the song better. — Mahalia Jackson

If you don't like Louis Armstrong, you don't know how to love. — Mahalia Jackson

When you sing gospel you have a feeling there is a cure for what's wrong. — Mahalia Jackson

The old Devil gets mad when you're trying to do good. Pray that God will move the stumbling blocks. — Mahalia Jackson

They thought I was a success as soon as I started paying the bills. — Mahalia Jackson

God can make you anything you want to be, but you have to put everything in his hands. — Mahalia Jackson

Faith and prayer are the vitamins of the soul; man cannot live in health without them. — Mahalia Jackson

I hope to bring people to God with my songs. — Mahalia Jackson

How can you sing of amazing grace and all God's wonders without using your hands? — Mahalia Jackson

Oh boy, I grew up hearing Sam Cooke, The Soul Stirrers, Mahalia Jackson, sitting on Mahalia Jackson's lap in my dad's church. — Merry Clayton

Without a song, each day would be a century. — Mahalia Jackson

I sing God's music because it makes me feel free. It gives me hope. With the blues, when you finish, you still have the blues. — Mahalia Jackson

The trouble with records is that they're too short. — Mahalia Jackson

This is the place to see the stars - Hollywood Bowl. — Mahalia Jackson

It is easy to be independent when you've got money. But to be independent when you haven't got a thing, that's the Lord's test. — Mahalia Jackson

The Lord doesn't like us to be dead. Be alive. Sometimes I dance to the glory of the Lord, because He said so. — Mahalia Jackson

Anybody singing the blues is in a deep pit yelling for help. — Mahalia Jackson

Blues are the songs of despair, — Mahalia Jackson

Mahalia Jackson, I grew up around the corner from in Chicago. — Nichelle Nichols

If you dig one ditch you better dig two cause the trap you set just may be for you — Mahalia Jackson

If you believe in God, He will open the windows of heaven and pour blessings upon you. — Mahalia Jackson

Put your mind on the gospel. And remember - there's one God for all. — Mahalia Jackson

The mind and the voice by themselves are not sufficient. — Mahalia Jackson

I don't worry too much about the script, I just ad lib, like Pearl Bailey. — Mahalia Jackson

One thing about playing the real jazz is that you can't count it. — Mahalia Jackson

My hands, my feet, I throw my whole body to say all that is within me. — Mahalia Jackson

You're blessed if you have the strength to work. — Mahalia Jackson

If you want me to sing this Christmas song with the feeling and the meaning, you better see if you can locate that check. — Mahalia Jackson

I'll come to any benefit if I see SCLC get all the money. — Mahalia Jackson

Money just draws flies. — Mahalia Jackson

When you are through with the blues, you've got nothing to rest on. — Mahalia Jackson

Do you know most of the Jewish songs have the same trend of sadness as Negro spirituals? — Mahalia Jackson

Baby, black promoters oppressed me before white promoters ever got hold of me. Don't talk skin to me. — Mahalia Jackson

Blues are the songs of despair, but gospel songs are the songs of hope. — Mahalia Jackson