Gospel Songs Quotes

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

  Mahalia Jackson

  Song, Despair

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

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

  Mahalia Jackson

  Experts, Jazz, Rhythm

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• I'm associated with gospel music in the minds of millions of people.

  Pat Boone

  People, Mind, Gospel Music

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• When you hear a good traditional gospel song it makes you wanna go buy a three piece suit

  Pat Boone

  Song, Three, Pieces

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• Gospel music is so ingrained into my bones. I can't do a concert without singing a gospel song. It's what I was raised on.

  Johnny Cash

  Song, Singing, Bones

  Source: blankonblank.org

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• 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

  Song, Biblical, Blood

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• Even if I make a gospel album, my gospel songs are going to get you dancing and crunk.

  Chingy

  Song, Dancing, Albums

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• I sang those old gospel songs for my mother, and she said, is that you? And I said, yes, ma'am. And she came over and put her arms around me and said, God's got his hands on you.

  Johnny Cash

  Mother, Song, Hands

  "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, kbbi.org. November 24, 2016.

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• I was made to go to church and I heard the gospel songs, and every now then somebody would come through with a guitar and that was a thrill!

  Steve Young

  Song, Guitar, Church

  Interview with Gordon Ames, www.outlawmagazine.com. May 2, 2012.

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• My father urged Alan [Lomax] not to repeat the mistakes of the European folklorists who, a century ago, had collected these peasant songs and then arranged them for part choir and accompanied them on piano, and then told the young people of their country, "Don't change a note, this is our sacred heritage." Father said, whether it's a fiddle tune or a gospel song, learn it right off the record from the people who grew up with it. Don't just learn it from a piece of paper.

  Pete Seeger

  Country, Song, Father

  Source: www.wholeearth.com

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• I might sing a gospel song in Arabic or do something in Hebrew. I want to mix it up and do it differently than one might imagine.

  Stevie Wonder

  Song, Want, Might

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• I remember when I was 5 or 6 years old, gospel music felt familiar, like I had heard it in the womb or something. A lot of those old gospel songs still give me that feeling, that it's older than time and there's actually music that can tap into a universal subconscious, or whatever word you want to put on it.

  M. Ward

  Song, Years, Giving

  Interview with Steven Hyden, music.avclub.com. May 10, 2007.

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• 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

  Song, Children, Growing Up

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• 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

  Song, Night, Two

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• Where better than the church for people like me, George Jones and Johnny Cash to go to get ourselves in shape enough to sing a gospel song?

  Marty Stuart

  Song, People, Church

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• 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

  Song, Grandma, Thinking

  "Life on the Line: A Telephone Conversation With Erykah Badu". Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. December 10, 2015.

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• I think more people in the mainstream, folks like Nancy Wilson and Luther Vandross, they have openly expressed their love for God, and when mainstream artists start expressing their love for God openly in their concerts and including gospel songs in their concert, and, you know, people started embracing it.

  Yolanda Adams

  Song, Thinking, Artist

  "Gospel Singer Yolanda Adams, 'Day by Day'". "News & Notes" with Ed Gordon, www.npr.org. August 30, 2005.

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• 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

  Country, Song, Writing

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• 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

  Song, Mean, Southern

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