Despair Quote by Mahalia Jackson Download Open image “Blues are the songs of despair,” — Mahalia Jackson ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.4 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Despair Inspirational Love Music Song
Blues are the songs of despair, but gospel songs are the songs of hope. — Mahalia Jackson Copy Share Image
The blues is a hopeful music. It helps you process something rather than avoid it. It's like mourning, in essence. — Ted Alexandro Copy Share Image
The blues is celebration, because when you take sorrow and turn it into music, you transform it. — Odetta Copy Share Image
Everything comes out in blues music: joy , pain , struggle . Blues is affirmation with absolute elegance. — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
The blues is so expressive - nostalgic but not sentimental, mournful but not pathetic, so humble and close to the earth. It's a nuance-filled… — Ry Cooder Copy Share Image
The blues is an impulse to keep the painful details and episodes of a brutal experience alive in one's aching consciousness, to finger its… — Ralph Ellison Copy Share Image
The rhythm persisted, the unfaltering common meter of blues, but the blueness itself, the sorrow, the despair, began to give way to hope. — Rudolph Fisher Copy Share Image
To me, the blues is an infection. I don't think it's necessarily a melancholy thing; the blues can be really positive and I think… — Mick Fleetwood Copy Share Image
My definition of the blues is the naked cry of the human heart longing to be in union with God. — Dion DiMucci Copy Share Image
Some of the greatest blues music is some of the darkest music you've ever heard. — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
Do you know most of the Jewish songs have the same trend of sadness as Negro spirituals? — Mahalia Jackson Copy Share Image
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 Image
God can make you anything you want to be, but you have to put everything in his hands. — Mahalia Jackson Copy Share Image
How can you sing of amazing grace and all God's wonders without using your hands? — Mahalia Jackson Copy Share Image
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 Image
If you believe in God, He will open the windows of heaven and pour blessings upon you. — Mahalia Jackson Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
“As ofttimes as it rains on my little spot of earth, you'd think I'd grow accustomed to the gloom.” — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
“She searched her mind for a single day when it had felt good to be alive. There must have been one, surely?” — Rachel Abbott Copy Share Image
I think what was special about 'Music by Prudence' was the classic story of the title subject's life path - from being an outcast… — Roger Ross Williams Copy Share Image
Your spirit is the part of you that seeks meaning and purpose. It's the part drawn to hope, that will not give in to… — Caroline Myss Copy Share Image
My God, whose son, as on this night, took on Him the form of man, and for man vouchsafed to suffer and bleed, controls… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
The skin and shell of things Though fair are not Thy wish nor prayer but got My meer despair of wings. — Henry Vaughan Copy Share Image
Enough for this bow & arrow. It caused me nothing but sorrow. No need for another tomorrow. In your heart, I will never be… — Louaiq8 Copy Share Image
True repentance never leads to despair. Its leads home. It leads to grace. — John Ortberg Copy Share Image
Do not consider despair as a thick and high wall standing on your way; it is just a darkness and you can still walk… — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
Despair is the price one pays for setting oneself an impossible aim. It is, one is told, the unforgivable sin, but it is a… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
