Mahalia Jackson Quotes

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

  Mahalia Jackson

  Faith, Prayer, Health

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

  Mahalia Jackson

  Feelings, Cures

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

  Mahalia Jackson

  Godly, Hands, Want

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• 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

  Mahalia Jackson, Evan McLeod Wylie (1966). “Movin' on Up”, New York : Hawthorn Books

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• Without a song, each day would be a century.

  Mahalia Jackson

  Music, Song, Would Be

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• 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

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• 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

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

  Mahalia Jackson

  Baby, White, Black

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• Blues are the songs of despair, but gospel songs are the songs of hope.

  Mahalia Jackson

  Song, Despair, Gospel Songs

  Mahalia Jackson, Evan McLeod Wylie (1966). “Movin' on Up”, New York : Hawthorn Books

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• The mind and the voice by themselves are not sufficient.

  Mahalia Jackson

  Voice, Mind, Sufficient

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• 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

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

  Mahalia Jackson

  Song, Eye, Feels

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

  Mahalia Jackson

  Song, Sadness, Trends

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• Everybody needs somebody.

  Mahalia Jackson

  Needs

  "Song: "Somebody" ("Reckless")". 1985.

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• How can you sing of Amazing Grace? How can you sing prayerfully of heaven and earth and all God's wonders without using your hands?

  Mahalia Jackson

  Hands, Grace, Wonder

  "Movin' on Up".

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

  Mahalia Jackson

  God, Believe, Blessing

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• 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

  Inspirational, Dance, Alive

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

  Mahalia Jackson

  Music, How To Love, Jazz

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• 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

  Mahalia Jackson, Evan McLeod Wylie (1966). “Movin' on Up”, New York : Hawthorn Books

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• Money just draws flies.

  Mahalia Jackson

  Draws

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

  Mahalia Jackson

  Mind, Remember

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

  Mahalia Jackson

  Hands, Feet, Body

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• Sometimes you ask God for something and you don't know what you're asking.

  Mahalia Jackson

  God, Asking, Sometimes

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

  Mahalia Jackson

  Real, Jazz, One Thing

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• 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

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