Quotes About Gospel Singers

#1. People like Clyde McPhatter who came out of the black churches - like Sam Cooke and Aretha Franklin - were all church singers who became great pop singers because gospel singing is very close to the blues.

Ahmet Ertegun

#2. I sort of cringe when I hear myself say the word 'work.' Getting to do something you love to do never really feels like work.

Lyle Lovett

#3. There are different ways of evil and I prefer mine to yours.

E. M. Forster

#4. I used to go to these old tent revivals and listen to the gospel singers. If you think rock and roll is energetic, it pales in comparison to a Pentecostal tent revival.

Edgar Winter

#5. You got to be bad before you're good.

Ken Harrelson

#6. Ouch. You really know how to tear a guy's heart out, don't you, princess?

Julie Kagawa

#7. I was born into a family of gospel singers. My early ambitions were many. I was going to be a ballerina. I almost had that one come true until I tore a tendon, so I transferred from my toes to my throat and that's where the talent settled.

Dionne Warwick

#8. They won't talk to you because I'm undercover.

Shaquille O'Neal

#9. Still found it difficult to look him in the face. She smiled vaguely in the direction of

Mary Balogh

#10. When I listen to gospel singers pouring their heart out to God, it's the act of pouring their hearts out that interests me.

Moby

#11. Your past doesn't actually exist. What you think is your past is a tiny blip of electricity in your brain happening right now. And if that's happening now, what's actually happening right now isn't really happening for you at all. This is what it is meant when people say, live in the present.

Dan Pearce

#12. I have a funny relationship with religion. I'm a big believer in ritualistic behavior as long as it doesn't hurt anybody. But I'm not a big fan of rules. And yet, we cannot live in a world without order.

Madonna Ciccone

#13. Every good gospel singer you can hear is a scat singer; they're just using different syllables. There are a lot of jazz singers out there, and more coming out of the churches.

Al Jarreau

#14. The falsetto stuff, it must be a reaction to the black gospel singers that I really enjoy listening to.

Justin Vernon

#15. No parent is perfect; we all can look back and think of things we could've done to help our children be better prepared for adulthood. And sometimes it's best to admit it to them and encourage them to learn from our mistakes.

Billy Graham

#16. I don't know what is marijuana. Perhaps I will try it when it will no longer be criminal. I will have my money for my fine and a joint in the other hand

Jean Chretien