Mavis Quotes
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Mavis Quotes & Sayings
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Emotions can get in the way or get you on the way
— Mavis Mazhura
She and Marie were Montreal girls, not trained to accompany heroes, or to hold out for dreams, but just to be patient.
— Mavis Gallant
I would get in fights a lot. My voice was so heavy, kids would say you sound like a boy, so I would start beating them up.
— Mavis Staples
I'm singing these songs to inspire you, to keep you going, to lift you up and give you a reason to get up in the morning.
— Mavis Staples
Like his father, like Jules Renard, he had been carried along the slow, steady swindle of history and experience.
— Mavis Gallant
I feel so good singing songs that I sang with my father.
— Mavis Staples
Writing is like a love affair: the beginning is the best part.
— Mavis Gallant
Success can only be measured in terms of distance traveled ...
— Mavis Gallant
My purpose: to lift your spirit and to motivate you.
— Mavis Staples
One day, when I was about eight years old, some kids pushed me on stage at school during a talent show because they knew I could sing.
— Mavis Staples
I was not fortunate enough to run into Obama. We were at the same church per se, but I would never be there when he was there.
— Mavis Staples
Music is such a joy, just an absolute joy.
— Mavis Staples
I won't wear rings and jewelry on the stage because I don't want you looking at my hands. I want you hearing what I'm saying.
— Mavis Staples
There's still injustice happening in my world. I sing my songs at concerts and I'm so grateful that the people are ready to hear them.
— Mavis Staples
There are songs that I have to play!
— Mavis Staples
A writer's life stands in relation to his work as a house does to a garden, related but distinct.
— Mavis Gallant
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[My father] had spent his own short time like a priest in charge of a relic, forever expecting the blessed blood to liquefy.
— Mavis Gallant
Decide what the rest of your life is to be. Whatever you are now, you might be forever.
— Mavis Gallant
A short story is what you see when you look out of the window.
— Mavis Gallant
The best music of my life I heard at my grandmother's church, this little wooden church up on a hill.
— Mavis Staples
I get my voice from my mother's side of the family. My mother and my grandmother both had strong voices.
— Mavis Staples
I can't just turn over and sing disco or rock.
— Mavis Staples
The vicar's handshake was warm and reassuring, but shaking hands with Mavis was like clutching a bunch of dead twigs.
— Victoria Twead
When problems arise, so do our emotions, based on our perception and associated feelings of whatever is going on
— Mavis Mazhura
I don't know which way I'm going. My next CD might be country, might be Dylan, might be Mick Jagger. I don't know. I love a challenge.
— Mavis Staples
If I wasn't my age, I would turn a flip. I would do some cartwheels. That's how I feel.
— Mavis Staples
If you don't get out among the people, how are you going to know what they need to hear about?
— Mavis Staples
Appeals to memory were never perfectly answered.
— Mavis Gallant
There is a term for people caught on a street crossing after the light has changed: "pedestrian-traffic residue".
— Mavis Gallant
I started writing letters home to my mother, saying that I wanted to come home, grandma won't let me sing.
— Mavis Staples
Pops, he was a singer's singer. I loved to hear my father sing. He just was so laid-back and cool. I always wished I could sing like Pops.
— Mavis Staples
I have often found that the best way to persuade anyone to do something they suspect is to explain that they really need not do it.
— Mavis Doriel Hay
There is a great feeling in a small venue, with the closeness of the people and the intimacy.
— Mavis Staples
I have fun just about everywhere I go.
— Mavis Staples
All immigration is based on misapprehension.
— Mavis Gallant
Emotions can either energise you or de-energise you
— Mavis Mazhura
All lives are interesting; no one life is more interesting than another. Its fascination depends on how much is revealed, and in what manner.
— Mavis Gallant
I'm just singing what I feel in my heart.
— Mavis Staples
I sang with my father for over 50 years, and now all of a sudden he's gone, and I just dropped out.
— Mavis Staples
I never sang for a Grammy, for money, for fame. That's my whole purpose for singing: for people, for the fans.
— Mavis Staples
I'm old enough to be Obama's grandmom. But I still like seeing good-looking things. Nothing wrong with that.
— Mavis Staples
The devil ain't got no music. All music is God's music.
— Mavis Staples
Since time immemorial any woman with half a brain has known that in the pursuit of romance she must hide it
— Mavis Cheek
If someone creates a Nobel Prize for Unsung Hero, my nominee will be the divorced single mother
— E. Mavis Hetherington
