Song Quotes by Mahalia Jackson

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

— Mahalia Jackson

The mind and the voice by themselves are not sufficient.

— 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…

— Mahalia Jackson

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

— Mahalia Jackson

I'll come to any benefit if I see SCLC get all the money.

— Mahalia Jackson

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

— Mahalia Jackson

How can you sing of amazing grace and all God's wonders without using your hands?

— Mahalia Jackson

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

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

— Mahalia Jackson

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

Anybody that sings the blues is in a deep pit, yelling for help.

— Mahalia Jackson

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

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

— Mahalia Jackson

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

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

— Mahalia Jackson