Mahalia Jackson Quotes About Music

Quotes about: Music

• Without a song, each day would be a century.

  Mahalia Jackson

  Music, Song, Would Be

• 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.

  Mahalia Jackson

  Music, Strong, Eye

• Anybody singing the blues is in a deep pit yelling for help.

  Mahalia Jackson

  Music, Sight, Yelling

• 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.

  Mahalia Jackson

  Music, Home, Wings

  Mahalia Jackson, Evan McLeod Wylie (1966). “Movin' on Up”, New York : Hawthorn Books

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

  Mahalia Jackson

  Music, How To Love, Jazz

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