Mahalia Jackson Quotes

I close my eyes when I sing so I can feel the song better.

Mahalia Jackson

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• I think the National League has better biorhythms in July.

  

  Earl Weaver
  • Think
  • Better
  • July

• Laughter made you live better and longer.

  

  Gail Parent
  • Live
  • Better
  • Laughter

• Madonna can still produce a catchy pop song, but she hasn't expanded her artistic vocabulary since the 1990s. Her concerts are glitzy extravaganzas of special effects overkill. She leaves little space in them for emotional depth or unscripted rapport with the audience.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Song
  • Space
  • Emotional

• I do find my speech difficult at times, but it's getting so much better as my confidence grows and that's thanks to the position I'm now in, which is totally due to my fans.

  

  Gareth Gates
  • Confidence
  • Better
  • Thanks

• I really like Ariana Grande, Jessie J, and Nicki Minaj's song, the 'Bang Bang' song. It's the new 'Lady Marmalade.' So good.

  

  Becky G
  • Good
  • Song
  • New

• A skilful leech is better far, than half a hundred men of war.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Men
  • War
  • Better

• People say, 'How does having kids change your writing? Do you see the world through their eyes?' No - you just become a faster songwriter... In the old days, you'd be like, 'Oh I'm gonna work on this song for a few days.'

  

  Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam
  • People
  • World
  • Work

• It might sound like I'm a dreamer, but economic models have reached their height of evolution. Technology has evolved. What hasn't evolved is mankind's spirituality; everything is from 3,000 years ago. With spirituality comes morals, a better way of thinking.

  

  Damian Marley
  • Thinking
  • Technology
  • Better

• In most companies people make a specific contribution to the company in their function. But it is not expressed in terms of profit, only in terms of performing their function better.

  

  Carlos Ghosn
  • People
  • Better
  • Company

• Some things are better than sex, and some are worse, but there's nothing exactly like it.

  

  W. C. Fields
  • Sex
  • Better
  • Worse

• I got better as an actor, and still I'm getting better. That's only been possible because there's always been work.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Work
  • Always
  • Better

• I like rock music because it's always sonically fascinating. There's never a method to what it needs to sound like. It's just however that instrument comes out that day, whatever the humidity level was in the air, what studio you were at. All that makes that tone that you can't re-create, so each song is like a person.

  

  Bobby Ray Simmons Jr.
  • Music
  • Song
  • Day

• I like finding that common point between another song and my music. It's like between people; you can be of religion or another, from this country or from another country, but we're all basically the same. It's just the same with songs.

  

  Yael Naim
  • People
  • Music
  • Country

• The buzz you get when you're playing a song and everyone is screaming and dancing and what have you and singing along is incredible.

  

  Aaron Johnson
  • Song
  • Singing
  • Everyone

• I like the silent church before the service begins, better than any preaching.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Church
  • Service
  • Better

• When we went up against teams that were better, I just hoped that we could steal the victories.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • Up
  • Better
  • Victories

• Nothing can stop a great song, so just keep songwriting.

  

  Manika
  • Great
  • Song
  • Stop

• That's my favorite part about songwriting, the way you write a song, and someone else might hear it a different way.

  

  RaeLynn
  • Different
  • Song
  • You

• When I picked up guitar, it wasn't like, 'OK, I'm going to be Kenny Chesney.' It was like, 'I want to play a chord,' and then it was like, 'I want to play another one, then play a song, then sing while playing the song.'

  

  Luke Combs
  • Up
  • Song

• I think 12 songs is too much to listen to all at once. When I buy a record, I get to the fifth song, and then I don't get to really hear the rest of the record.

  

  Colbie Caillat
  • Song
  • Rest

• That's why I loved Dinah Washington. She sung jazz, but they called her the Queen of the Blues. She had the control and sophistication of jazz in her note selection and how to attack a song or certain lines, but then attacked it with a painful force of blues behind it. That's why I admired her so much, because of that versatility.

  

  Andra Day
  • Song
  • Control
  • Jazz

• I think the people of Pennsylvania would rather have a governor who is committed to being there.

  

  Lynn Swann
  • People
  • Think
  • Pennsylvania

• Whatever God's reasons for such diversity, creativity, and sophistication in the universe, on earth, and in our own bodies, the point of it all is His glory. God's art speaks of Himself, reflecting who He is and what He is like.

  

  Francis Chan
  • Art
  • Earth
  • Reason

• I close my eyes when I sing so I can feel the song better.

  

  Mahalia Jackson
  • Song
  • Eyes
  • Better