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  • My father urged Alan [Lomax] not to repeat the mistakes of the European folklorists who, a century ago, had collected these peasant songs and then arranged them for part choir and accompanied them on piano, and then told the young people of their country, "Don't change a note, this is our sacred heritage." Father said, whether it's a fiddle tune or a gospel song, learn it right off the record from the people who grew up with it. Don't just learn it from a piece of paper.

    Country   Song   Father  
    Source: www.wholeearth.com
  • 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.

    Song   Singing   Bones  
    Source: blankonblank.org
  • Even if I make a gospel album, my gospel songs are going to get you dancing and crunk.

    Song   Dancing   Albums  
  • I find in my poetry and prose the rhythms and imagery of the best - I mean, when I'm at my best - of the good Southern black preachers. The lyricism of the spirituals and the directness of gospel songs and the mystery of blues are in my music or in my poetry and prose, or I missed everything.

    Song   Mean   Southern  
  • We do two shows a night for five weeks. A lotta times we'll go upstairs and sing until daylight - gospel songs. We grew up with it...It more or less puts your mind at ease. It does mine.

    Song   Night   Two  
  • I'm associated with gospel music in the minds of millions of people.

  • Where better than the church for people like me, George Jones and Johnny Cash to go to get ourselves in shape enough to sing a gospel song?

    Song   People   Church  
  • During childbirth and hospice I'll sing gospel songs that my grandma taught me when I was younger, or something I've made up, or I'll hum. I just play things that I think the audience will like.

    Song   Grandma   Thinking  
    "Life on the Line: A Telephone Conversation With Erykah Badu". Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. December 10, 2015.
  • I remember when I was 5 or 6 years old, gospel music felt familiar, like I had heard it in the womb or something. A lot of those old gospel songs still give me that feeling, that it's older than time and there's actually music that can tap into a universal subconscious, or whatever word you want to put on it.

    Song   Years   Giving  
    Interview with Steven Hyden, music.avclub.com. May 10, 2007.
  • I was made to go to church and I heard the gospel songs, and every now then somebody would come through with a guitar and that was a thrill!

    Song   Guitar   Church  
    Interview with Gordon Ames, www.outlawmagazine.com. May 2, 2012.
  • When you hear a good traditional gospel song it makes you wanna go buy a three piece suit

    Song   Three   Pieces  
  • 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.

    Song   Feelings   Cures  
  • I might sing a gospel song in Arabic or do something in Hebrew. I want to mix it up and do it differently than one might imagine.

    Song   Want   Might  
  • Gospel songs to me are about the mansion in the sky, and washed in the blood of Christ's crimson blood, songs that are filled with biblical wording that's no longer understood by a lot of people.

    Song   Biblical   Blood  
  • I sang those old gospel songs for my mother, and she said, is that you? And I said, yes, ma'am. And she came over and put her arms around me and said, God's got his hands on you.

    Mother   Song   Hands  
    "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, kbbi.org. November 24, 2016.
  • I've really been writing a lot of country songs. I used to get criticized for doing a 'Bump Grind,' then turning around and doing a gospel song. But the truth is I'm glad I have a gift that allows me to switch lanes.

    Country   Song   Writing  
    Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
  • Gospel music rhythms are not African in origin, although I know that's what the jazz experts say.

    Experts   Jazz   Rhythm  
  • Blues are the songs of despair, but gospel songs are the songs of hope.

    Mahalia Jackson, Evan McLeod Wylie (1966). “Movin' on Up”, New York : Hawthorn Books
  • I think more people in the mainstream, folks like Nancy Wilson and Luther Vandross, they have openly expressed their love for God, and when mainstream artists start expressing their love for God openly in their concerts and including gospel songs in their concert, and, you know, people started embracing it.

    Song   Thinking   Artist  
    "Gospel Singer Yolanda Adams, 'Day by Day'". "News & Notes" with Ed Gordon, www.npr.org. August 30, 2005.
  • Gospel music was the thing that inspired me as a child growing up on a cotton farm, where work was drudgery and it was so hard that when I was in the field I sang all the time. Usually gospel songs because they lifted me up above that black dirt.

    Source: blankonblank.org
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