65 Quotes by Mahalia Jackson

I don't worry too much about the script, I just ad lib, like Pearl Bailey.

One thing about playing the real jazz is that you can't count it.

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!

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

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

This is the place to see the stars - Hollywood Bowl.

When you are through with the blues, you've got nothing to rest on.

Time is important to me because I want to sing long enough to leave a message.

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.