65 Quotes by 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 would dare stop me until the Lord arrives!

You’re blessed if you have the strength to work.

If you don’t like Louis Armstrong, you don’t know how to love.

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

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.

Gospel music rhythms are not African in origin, although I know that’s what the jazz experts say.

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.

If you dig one ditch you better dig two cause the trap you set just may be for you.