Mahalia Jackson Quotes
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The old Devil gets mad when you're trying to do good. Pray that God will move the stumbling blocks.
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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.
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I hope to bring people to God with my songs.
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Gospel music in those days of the early 1930s was really taking wing. It was the kind of music colored people had left behind them down South and they liked it because it was just like a letter from home.
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I'll come to any benefit if I see SCLC get all the money.
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If you want me to sing this Christmas song with the feeling and the meaning, you better see if you can locate that check.
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Everybody needs somebody.
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Sometimes you ask God for something and you don't know what you're asking.
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God can make you anything you want to be, but you have to put everything in his hands.
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I don't worry too much about the script, I just ad lib, like Pearl Bailey.
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Blues are the songs of despair.
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Do you know most of the Jewish songs have the same trend of sadness as Negro spirituals?
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They thought I was a success as soon as I started paying the bills.
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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.
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A great influence in my life was the sanctified or Holiness churches...Everybody in there sang and they clapped and stomped heir feet and sang with their whole body... Their music was so strong and expressive, it used to bring tears to my eyes.
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Gospel songs are the songs of hope. When you sing gospel you have the feeling there is a cure for what's wrong, but when you are through with the blues, you've got nothing to rest on.
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Anybody singing the blues is in a deep pit yelling for help.
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When you sing gospel you have a feeling there is a cure for what's wrong.
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The trouble with records is that they're too short.
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My hands, my feet, I throw my whole body to say all that is within me.
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Without a song, each day would be a century.
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The Lord doesn't like us to be dead. Be alive. Sometimes I dance to the glory of the Lord, because He said so.
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When you are through with the blues, you've got nothing to rest on.
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This is the place to see the stars - Hollywood Bowl.
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Time is important to me because I want to sing long enough to leave a message. I'm used to singing in churches where nobody would dare stop me until the Lord arrives!
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Baby, black promoters oppressed me before white promoters ever got hold of me. Don't talk skin to me.
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One thing about playing the real jazz is that you can't count it.
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Faith and prayer are the vitamins of the soul; man cannot live in health without them.
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How can you sing of Amazing Grace? How can you sing prayerfully of heaven and earth and all God's wonders without using your hands?
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Gospel music rhythms are not African in origin, although I know that's what the jazz experts say.
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