I don't worry too much about the script, I just ad lib, like Pearl Bailey. — Mahalia Jackson Copy Share Image
Do you know most of the Jewish songs have the same trend of sadness as Negro spirituals? — Mahalia Jackson Copy Share
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… — Mahalia Jackson Copy Share
God can make you anything you want to be, but you have to put everything in his hands. — Mahalia Jackson Copy Share
How can you sing of amazing grace and all God's wonders without using your hands? — Mahalia Jackson Copy Share
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… — Mahalia Jackson Copy Share
If you believe in God, He will open the windows of heaven and pour blessings upon you. — Mahalia Jackson Copy Share
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 Copy Share
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… — Mahalia Jackson Copy Share
Gospel music in those days of the early 1930s was really taking wing. It was the kind of music colored people had left behind… — Mahalia Jackson Copy Share
Faith and prayer are the vitamins of the soul; man cannot live in health without them. — Mahalia Jackson Copy Share
