Mahalia Jackson Quotes

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• God can make you anything you want to be, but you have to put everything in his hands.
• Without a song, each day would be a century.
• I close my eyes when I sing so I can feel the song better.
• The Lord doesn't like us to be dead. Be alive. Sometimes I dance to the glory of the Lord, because He said so.
• If you don't like Louis Armstrong, you don't know how to love.
• 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…
• Someday the sun is going to shine down on me in some faraway place.
• I sing God's music because it makes me feel free. It gives me hope. With the blues, when you finish, you still have the blues.
• My hands, my feet, I throw my whole body to say all that is within me.
• I hope to bring people to God with my songs.
• I'll come to any benefit if I see SCLC get all the money.
• 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…
• Blues are the songs of despair,
• Faith and prayer are the vitamins of the soul; man cannot live in health without them.
• If you believe in God, He will open the windows of heaven and pour blessings upon you.
• 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.
• You're blessed if you have the strength to work.
• When you sing gospel you have a feeling there is a cure for what's wrong.
• Put your mind on the gospel. And remember - there's one God for all.
• Money just draws flies.

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