Best 28 quotes of Mahalia Jackson on MyQuotes

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.

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

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

Blues are the songs of despair.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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?

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

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

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

If you want me to sing this Christmas song with the feeling and the meaning, you better see if you can locate that check.

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.

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

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

The Lord doesn't like us to be dead. Be alive. Sometimes I dance to the glory of the Lord, because He said so.

The mind and the voice by themselves are not sufficient.

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

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

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!

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

Without a song, each day would be a century.

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

Gospel music is nothing but singing of good tidings -- spreading the good news. It will last as long as any music because it is sung straight from the human heart.

Precious Lord, take my hand Lead me on, let me stand I am tired, I am weak, I am worn Through the storm, through the night Lead me on through the light Take my hand, precious Lord And lead me home When my way grows dreary Precious Lord, lead me near When my life is almost gone At the river I will stand Guide my feet, hold my hand Take my hand, precious Lord And lead me home