Top 39 Mahalia Jackson Quotes

#1. 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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#2. Money just draws flies.

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#3. Gospel music is nothing but singing of good tidings -- spreading the good news. It will last as long as any music because it is sung straight from the human heart.

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#4. The trouble with records is that they're too short.

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#5. 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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#6. Sometimes you ask God for something and you don't know what you're asking.

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#7. The mind and the voice by themselves are not sufficient.

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#8. I hope to bring people to God with my songs.

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#9. When you sing gospel you have a feeling there is a cure for what's wrong.

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#10. One thing about playing the real jazz is that you can't count it.

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#11. God can make you anything you want to be, but you have to put everything in his hands.

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#12. This is the place to see the stars - Hollywood Bowl.

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#13. 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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#14. Baby, black promoters oppressed me before white promoters ever got hold of me. Don't talk skin to me.

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#15. If you don't like Louis Armstrong, you don't know how to love.

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#16. Anybody singing the blues is in a deep pit yelling for help.

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#17. You're blessed if you have the strength to work.

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#18. I close my eyes when I sing so I can feel the song better.

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#19. If you dig one ditch you better dig two cause the trap you set just may be for you

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#20. Blues are the songs of despair, but gospel songs are the songs of hope.

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#21. Put your mind on the gospel. And remember - there's one God for all.

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#22. I don't worry too much about the script, I just ad lib, like Pearl Bailey.

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#23. They thought I was a success as soon as I started paying the bills.

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#24. 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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#25. Do you know most of the Jewish songs have the same trend of sadness as Negro spirituals?

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#26. My hands, my feet, I throw my whole body to say all that is within me.

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#27. 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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#28. 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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#29. The old Devil gets mad when you're trying to do good. Pray that God will move the stumbling blocks.

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#30. I'll come to any benefit if I see SCLC get all the money.

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#31. 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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#32. How can you sing of amazing grace and all God's wonders without using your hands?

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#33. If you believe in God, He will open the windows of heaven and pour blessings upon you.

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

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#35. Without a song, each day would be a century.

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#36. Faith and prayer are the vitamins of the soul; man cannot live in health without them.

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#37. When you are through with the blues, you've got nothing to rest on.

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#38. Someday the sun is going to shine down on me in some faraway place.

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#39. Blues are the songs of despair,

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