Mahalia Jackson Quotations

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.

I'll come to any benefit if I see SCLC get all the money.

I hope to bring people to God with my songs.

They thought I was a success as soon as I started paying the bills.

Blues are the songs of despair, but gospel songs are the songs of hope.

Put your mind on the gospel. And remember - there's one God for all.

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

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

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

Everybody needs somebody.