Gospel Music Quotes - Page 3

• I'm a big fan of gospel music, and you cannot be a fan of rock and roll, you cannot be a fan of country western music, and you can't really be a fan of jazz without listening to a lot of music that's religious.

  Penn Jillette

  Country, Religious, Rocks

  "Magician Penn Jillette Says 'God, No!' To Religion". "Talk of the Nation" with Neal Conan, www.npr.org. August 16, 2011.

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• There are rooms for traditional and contemporary and hip hop Gospel music.

  T. D. Jakes

  Hip Hop, Rooms, Hips

  Source: thechurchladyblogs.com

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• It just took the right time. I was fully confident that I was going to see Sam Phillips and to record for him that when I called him, I thought, I'm going to get on Sun Records. So I called him and he turned me down flat. Then two weeks later, I got turned down again. He told me over the phone that he couldn't sell gospel music so - as it was independent, not a lot of money.

  Johnny Cash

  Independent, Phones, Two

  Source: wrvo.org

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• And different traditions stress different - so then there's that. I talked to an African American who says before she goes into an interracial church, she sits in her car and she listens to gospel music to get her fill, and she goes into an interracial church where they don't do gospel music, and she's ready to accept the other sorts of ways of worshipping. So there's that.

  Michael Emerson

  Stress, Car, African American

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I was definitely inspired by gospel music, or old-school R&B; I got into some Good God gospel compilations.

  Yannis Philippakis

  School, Inspired, Good God

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• When I did the Abyssinian mass, I went through the whole history of the church music and the gospel music, even with the Anglo American hymns, the Afro American hymns, the spirituals and how it developed, up to Thomas Dorsey and the Dixie Hummingbirds, going through the history of the music, jazz musicians.

  Wynton Marsalis

  Church Music, Hymns, Musician

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• My childhood was limited to mostly gospel music. We didn't have, like, a lot of records in our house, you know. It was like my grandparents who raised me. They were pretty old-fashioned in their religious ways, so it was like church, church, church, school, school, school.

  Faith Evans

  Religious, School, Grandparent

  "Singer Faith Evans Talks Christmas Hip-Hop". "News & Notes" with Ed Gordon, www.npr.org. December 21, 2005.

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• I always loved Sam Cooke, because he seemed very versatile. He sang gospel, soul, blues, pop music

  Aaron Neville

  Soul, Pops, Sam Cooke

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