Mahalia Jackson Quotes
"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
(Related: Money)
"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
(Related: Christmas, Feeling, Meaning, Song, Want)
"If you believe in God, He will open the windows of heaven and pour blessings upon you."
- Mahalia Jackson
(Related: God, Blessings, Heaven, Open, Will, Windows)
"I'll come to any benefit if I see SCLC get all the money."
- Mahalia Jackson
(Related: Money)
"I hope to bring people to God with my songs."
- Mahalia Jackson
(Related: God, People, Hope, Songs)
"I don't worry too much about the script, I just ad lib, like Pearl Bailey."
- Mahalia Jackson
(Related: Worry)
"Anybody that sings the blues is in a deep pit, yelling for help."
- Mahalia Jackson
(Related: Deep, Help)
"Baby, black promoters oppressed me before white promoters ever got hold of me. Don't talk skin to me."
- Mahalia Jackson
(Related: Baby, Skin, Talk)
"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
(Related: Time, Churches, Singing, Want)
"Gospel music rhythms are not African in origin, although I know that's what the jazz experts say."
- Mahalia Jackson
(Related: Music, African, Experts, Jazz)
"God can make you anything you want to be, but you have to put everything in his hands."
- Mahalia Jackson
(Related: God, Want)
"Faith and prayer are the vitamins of the soul; man cannot live in health without them."
- Mahalia Jackson
(Related: Faith, Health, Soul, Man, Prayer)
"Everybody needs somebody."
- Mahalia Jackson
(Related: Needs)
"Do you know most of the Jewish songs have the same trend of sadness as Negro spirituals?"
- Mahalia Jackson
(Related: Sadness, Songs)
"Blues are the songs of despair, but gospel songs are the songs of hope."
- Mahalia Jackson
(Related: Hope, Despair, Songs)
"Money just draws flies."
- Mahalia Jackson
(Related: Money, Flies)
"I close my eyes when I sing so I can feel the song better."
- Mahalia Jackson
(Related: Eyes, Song)
"This is the place to see the stars - Hollywood Bowl."
- Mahalia Jackson
(Related: Hollywood, Stars)
"Anybody singing the blues is in a deep pit yelling for help."
- Mahalia Jackson
(Related: Deep, Help, Singing)
"You're blessed if you have the strength to work."
- Mahalia Jackson
(Related: Work, Strength)
"Without a song, each day would be a century."
- Mahalia Jackson
(Related: Day, Song)
"They thought I was a success as soon as I started paying the bills."
- Mahalia Jackson
(Related: Success, Thought)
"When you are through with the blues, you've got nothing to rest on."
- Mahalia Jackson
(Related: Nothing, Rest)
"My hands, my feet, I throw my whole body to say all that is within me."
- Mahalia Jackson
(Related: Body, Feet)
"The trouble with records is that they're too short."
- Mahalia Jackson
(Related: Trouble)
"The old Devil gets mad when you're trying to do good. Pray that God will move the stumbling blocks."
- Mahalia Jackson
(Related: God, Devil, Old, Trying, Will)
"The mind and the voice by themselves are not sufficient."
- Mahalia Jackson
(Related: Mind, Voice)
"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
(Related: Dance, Glory)
"Sometimes you ask God for something and you don't know what you're asking."
- Mahalia Jackson
(Related: God)
"Put your mind on the gospel. And remember - there's one God for all."
- Mahalia Jackson
(Related: God, Mind)
"One thing about playing the real jazz is that you can't count it."
- Mahalia Jackson
(Related: Jazz)
"When you sing gospel you have a feeling there is a cure for what's wrong."
- Mahalia Jackson
(Related: Cure, Feeling, Wrong)