Mahalia Jackson famous quotes

Faith and prayer are the vitamins of the soul; man cannot live in health without them.
-- Mahalia Jackson

#Faith #Prayer #Men

When you sing gospel you have a feeling there is a cure for what's wrong.
-- Mahalia Jackson

#Feelings #Cures

You're blessed if you have the strength to work.
-- Mahalia Jackson

#Work #Blessed #Motivational Work

Without a song, each day would be a century.
-- Mahalia Jackson

#Music #Song #Would Be

One thing about playing the real jazz is that you can't count it.
-- Mahalia Jackson

#Real #Jazz

Baby, black promoters oppressed me before white promoters ever got hold of me. Don't talk skin to me.
-- Mahalia Jackson

#Baby #White #Black

Money just draws flies.
-- Mahalia Jackson

#Draws

I close my eyes when I sing so I can feel the song better.
-- Mahalia Jackson

#Song #Eye #Feels

Blues are the songs of despair,
-- Mahalia Jackson

#Song #Despair

If you believe in God, He will open the windows of heaven and pour blessings upon you.
-- Mahalia Jackson

#God #Believe #Blessing

How can you sing of amazing grace and all God's wonders without using your hands?
-- Mahalia Jackson

#Hands #Grace #Wonder

This is the place to see the stars - Hollywood Bowl.
-- Mahalia Jackson

#Stars #Hollywood

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

#Music #Home #Wings

Do you know most of the Jewish songs have the same trend of sadness as Negro spirituals?
-- Mahalia Jackson

#Song #Sadness #Trends

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

#Mind #Remember

Blues are the songs of despair, but gospel songs are the songs of hope.
-- Mahalia Jackson

#Song #Despair

They thought I was a success as soon as I started paying the bills.
-- Mahalia Jackson

#Bills

The trouble with records is that they're too short.
-- Mahalia Jackson

#Records #Trouble #Too Short

Sometimes you ask God for something and you don't know what you're asking.
-- Mahalia Jackson

#God #Asking #Sometimes

The mind and the voice by themselves are not sufficient.
-- Mahalia Jackson

#Voice #Mind

The old Devil gets mad when you're trying to do good. Pray that God will move the stumbling blocks.
-- Mahalia Jackson

#Block #Moving #Mad

Everybody needs somebody.
-- Mahalia Jackson

#Needs

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

#Experts #Jazz #Rhythm

I don't worry too much about the script, I just ad lib, like Pearl Bailey.
-- Mahalia Jackson

#Worry #Pearls #Too Much

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

#Christmas #Song #Feelings

When you are through with the blues, you've got nothing to rest on.
-- Mahalia Jackson

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

#Money #Famous Inspirational #Independent

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.
-- Mahalia Jackson

#Song #Feelings #Cures

I'll come to any benefit if I see SCLC get all the money.
-- Mahalia Jackson

#Benefits

I hope to bring people to God with my songs.
-- Mahalia Jackson

#Song #People

My hands, my feet, I throw my whole body to say all that is within me.
-- Mahalia Jackson

#Hands #Feet #Body

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

#Giving #Music Is #Feels

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

#Music #Strong #Eye

Someday the sun is going to shine down on me in some faraway place.
-- Mahalia Jackson

#Shining #Sun #Someday

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

#Dance #Alive #Sometimes

God can make you anything you want to be, but you have to put everything in his hands.
-- Mahalia Jackson

#Godly #Hands #Want

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

#Long #Singing #Important

If you don't like Louis Armstrong, you don't know how to love.
-- Mahalia Jackson

#Music #How To Love #Jazz

Anybody singing the blues is in a deep pit yelling for help.
-- Mahalia Jackson

#Music #Sight #Yelling