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I hope to bring people to God with my songs.
Without a song, each day would be a century.
This is the place to see the stars - Hollywood Bowl.
Someday the sun is going to shine down on me in some faraway place.
When you sing gospel you have a feeling there is a cure for what's wrong.
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.
If you don't like Louis Armstrong, you don't know how to love.
When you are through with the blues, you've got nothing to rest on.
I'll come to any benefit if I see SCLC get all the money.
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.
Put your mind on the gospel. And remember - there's one God for all.
If you dig one ditch you better dig two cause the trap you set just may be for you
I don't worry too much about the script, I just ad lib, like Pearl Bailey.
Baby, black promoters oppressed me before white promoters ever got hold of me. Don't talk skin to me.
One thing about playing the real jazz is that you can't count it.
If you believe in God, He will open the windows of heaven and pour blessings upon you.
The Lord doesn't like us to be dead. Be alive. Sometimes I dance to the glory of the Lord, because He said so.
You're blessed if you have the strength to work.
They thought I was a success as soon as I started paying the bills.
Gospel music is nothing but singing of good tidings -- spreading the good news. It will last as long as any music because it is sung straight from the human heart.
Blues are the songs of despair, but gospel songs are the songs of hope.
God can make you anything you want to be, but you have to put everything in his hands.
The old Devil gets mad when you're trying to do good. Pray that God will move the stumbling blocks.
The trouble with records is that they're too short.
Blues are the songs of despair,
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 would dare stop me until the Lord arrives!
Gospel music rhythms are not African in origin, although I know that's what the jazz experts say.
The mind and the voice by themselves are not sufficient.
