Top 45 Mahalia Quotes
#1. Growing up in Cleveland, I learned about singing from my mother, who had once sung professionally and who admired Mahalia Jackson and Aretha Franklin.
Tracy Chapman
#2. Mahalia Jackson, I grew up around the corner from in Chicago.
Nichelle Nichols
#3. The singer who really opened the door for me was Sarah Vaughan. But I listen to so much music, especially when I was growing up. My parents loved jazz music, so on Saturday [laughing] it would be the "Longine's Symphonettes," and on Sunday it was Mahalia Jackson.
Dianne Reeves
#4. 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
#5. I grew up in St. Louis in a tiny house full of large music - Mahalia Jackson and Marian Anderson singing majestically on the stereo, my German-American mother fingering 'The Lost Chord' on the piano as golden light sank through trees, my Palestinian father trilling in Arabic in the shower each dawn.
Naomi Shihab Nye
#6. When I am chopping trees out in the woods because I heat my house with wood, I feel myself right in the middle of God. Mahalia Jackson said "I have seen God. I have seen the sun rise." So, in a sense, when anyone looks in the mirror, they look at an infinitesimally small part of God.
Pete Seeger
#7. Put your mind on the gospel. And remember - there's one God for all.
Mahalia Jackson
#9. I don't worry too much about the script, I just ad lib, like Pearl Bailey.
Mahalia Jackson
#10. They thought I was a success as soon as I started paying the bills.
Mahalia Jackson
#11. 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
#12. Do you know most of the Jewish songs have the same trend of sadness as Negro spirituals?
Mahalia Jackson
#13. My hands, my feet, I throw my whole body to say all that is within me.
Mahalia Jackson
#14. 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
#15. 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.
Mahalia Jackson
#16. The old Devil gets mad when you're trying to do good. Pray that God will move the stumbling blocks.
Mahalia Jackson
#17. I'll come to any benefit if I see SCLC get all the money.
Mahalia Jackson
#18. 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.
Mahalia Jackson
#19. How can you sing of amazing grace and all God's wonders without using your hands?
Mahalia Jackson
#20. If you believe in God, He will open the windows of heaven and pour blessings upon you.
Mahalia Jackson
#21. Gospel music rhythms are not African in origin, although I know that's what the jazz experts say.
Mahalia Jackson
#23. Faith and prayer are the vitamins of the soul; man cannot live in health without them.
Mahalia Jackson
#24. When you are through with the blues, you've got nothing to rest on.
Mahalia Jackson
#25. Someday the sun is going to shine down on me in some faraway place.
Mahalia Jackson
#26. One thing about playing the real jazz is that you can't count it.
Mahalia Jackson
#27. 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!
Mahalia Jackson
#29. 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.
Mahalia Jackson
#31. 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
#32. Sometimes you ask God for something and you don't know what you're asking.
Mahalia Jackson
#33. The mind and the voice by themselves are not sufficient.
Mahalia Jackson
#35. When you sing gospel you have a feeling there is a cure for what's wrong.
Mahalia Jackson
#36. Blues are the songs of despair, but gospel songs are the songs of hope.
Mahalia Jackson
#37. God can make you anything you want to be, but you have to put everything in his hands.
Mahalia Jackson
#39. 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
#40. Baby, black promoters oppressed me before white promoters ever got hold of me. Don't talk skin to me.
Mahalia Jackson
#41. If you don't like Louis Armstrong, you don't know how to love.
Mahalia Jackson
#42. Anybody singing the blues is in a deep pit yelling for help.
Mahalia Jackson
#44. I close my eyes when I sing so I can feel the song better.
Mahalia Jackson
#45. If you dig one ditch you better dig two cause the trap you set just may be for you
Mahalia Jackson
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