Top 36 Quotes About Gospel Songs
#1. We enjoyed the fact that we were called to the folk festivals and we got to know Joan Baez, Dylan. We were singing strictly gospel, but then after we started hearing songs that they would sing, we saw that those songs were very fitting for us because they were singing the truth, and truth is gospel.
Mavis Staples
#2. Speaking figuratively, they were soon chronic alcoholics, men who lived by violence, through extreme action and sensation, through drowning daily in a perpetual nervous agitation. From
Richard Wright
#3. 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.
Johnny Cash
#4. The intoxication of anger, like that of the grape, shows us to others, but hides us from ourselves.
John Dryden
#5. Even if I make a gospel album, my gospel songs are going to get you dancing and crunk.
Chingy
#6. I'm embracing new technology to record my songs, and it's a wonderful way to interact with people who love Whitesnake and help spread the gospel of the 'Snake, and I'm having fun doing it.
David Coverdale
#8. 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.
R. Kelly
#9. If you're not eating the right foods in the right amounts, all the exercise in the world won't combat the caloric intake.
Jennifer Hudson
#10. They never really lived like you're thinking of life. It's not a soul that's animating them. Take away the dreamer and ...
Maggie Stiefvater
#11. What's so powerful about the Psalms are, as well as they're being gospel and songs of praise, they are also the blues.
Bono
#12. I've recorded songs that are prayers in different styles, not just in the traditional gospel style that can help and comfort them. It's the words that matter most.
Oleta Adams
#13. Music is given of God to further his purposes. Sweet melodies mellow the souls of men and help prepare them for the gospel. After men receive the truth, songs of praise to Deity help to sanctify and cleanse their souls.
Bruce R. McConkie
#14. You would never expect a black woman to be the hero.
Sanaa Lathan
#15. 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.
Larry Norman
#16. My next project will be a Christian album, another one. I wrote the songs for the ones you're referring to, but I want to do some of my old gospel favorites. That's what my next album's going to be.
Charlie Daniels
#17. I don't like having feelings, Eric said coldly, and he left.
That was a tough exit line to top.
Charlaine Harris
#19. With the backdrop of The Salvation Army's century and a half of service to the world's poor, these songs and reflections are born of meaningful engagement with a living Gospel
Sara Groves
#20. I believe that gospel is more than just a sound, it's a way of life. I don't really have any shame to talk about spirituality in my music. A lot of your favorite soul songs started out in gospel.
Leon Bridges
#21. Whitney Houston, one of my biggest inspirations, also had that same mindset because her songs vary from R&B, hip hop, pop, and gospel.
Heather Headley
#22. Blues are the songs of despair, but gospel songs are the songs of hope.
Mahalia Jackson
#23. 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.
Erykah Badu
#24. 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.
Maya Angelou
#25. I would sit on the street corners in my hometown of Indianola, Mississippi, and I would play. And, generally, I would start playing gospel songs.
B.B. King
#26. 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.
Elvis Presley
#27. So, I stood alone by the wall and watched the dance for a while. I would describe it to you, but I think it's the kind of thing where you have to be there or at least know the people. But then again, maybe you knew the same people when you went to high school dances, if you know what I mean.
Stephen Chbosky
#28. I had been stockpiling Gospel songs for other artists, and had planned to submit them to Gospel artists.
Smokey Robinson
#29. It's not the end that I fear with each breath- It's life that scares me to death.
Tim McIlrath
#30. We've all become god's madmen, all of us.
Bram Stoker
#31. (3) Singing can help us use words to demonstrate and express our unity, which means singing songs that unite us instead of divide us, recognizing that musical creativity in the church has functional limits and that it is ultimately the gospel, not music, that unites us in Christ.
John Piper
#32. Christianity has so much taken roots among us that drunkards sing gospel songs on their way home
Bangambiki Habyarimana
#34. It's my brain," she says softly. "It's eating me alive.
Jillian Medoff
#35. Many a treasure besides Ali Baba's is unlocked with a verbal key.
Henry Van Dyke
#36. The persons you long for, who have gone to heaven before you, will be waiting for you when you die. They will be ready to comfort you and escort you to heaven.
Howard Storm
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