52 Quotes by Mavis Staples

I can't just turn over and sing disco or rock.

I don't know which way I'm going. My next CD might be country, might be Dylan, might be Mick Jagger. I don't know. I love a challenge.

I feel so good singing songs that I sang with my father.

Whenever somebody tells me they want me to stop singing, I'm gone.

I'm just singing what I feel in my heart.

There are songs that I have to play!

We've had a great change. Dr King saw to that. I was so grateful to see the 'colored only' signs come off the water fountains and bathrooms in the south. But the struggle lives on.

It's been an amazing life. It's really just been the most magical thing for me - and I have these musical friends from all walks of life.

I just had a wonderful life, and I couldn't ask for anything else.