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