Quotes by Mahalia Jackson

Mahalia Jackson

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.

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

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

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

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Blues are the songs of despair.

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

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Everybody needs somebody.

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

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

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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.

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Quotes by Mahalia Jackson

Mahalia Jackson

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.

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

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?

Everybody needs somebody.

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.

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