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

• Even in the beginning, when we knew there was a legal argument about how much our song sounds like his song, as one songwriter to another, I wasn't sure that Cat Stevens would take that as bad.

  

  Wayne Coyne
  • Bad
  • Song
  • Beginning

• 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

• Having a band was part of my heart's desire, musically. Within myself, I was saying that, 'Not until you have a band for yourself can you maintain the standard of your songs,' and the sound become a foundation. You don't have to feel around for two or three weeks for the sound because the foundation is already built.

  

  Burning Spear
  • Heart
  • Desire
  • Band

• Yes. I'm alone.I would have thought there to be worse fates than this, but now I know there are none. Man is no island. We need those who love us. We need those who hate us. We need others to tether us to life, to give us a reason to live, to feel.

  

  Pierce Brown
  • Life
  • Live
  • Hate

• I had amazing intellectual privilege as a kid. My mom taught me to read when I was two or three. When I was five, I read and wrote well enough to do my nine-year older brother's homework in exchange for chocolate or cigarettes. By the time I was 10, I was reading Orwell, Tolstoy's 'War and Peace,' and the Koran. I was reading comic books, too.

  

  Chris Abani
  • Time
  • War
  • Peace

• The divorce is a regret of mine and my mum thinks that we should have stayed together. He's now remarried so there's no chance of us getting back together.

  

  Carol Vorderman
  • Together
  • Regret
  • Divorce

• I wanted to be a composer before anything else. And my sister was listening to Led Zeppelin in the other room! When I heard that, it was a game-changer.

  

  Steven Siro Vai Alcatrazz
  • Listening
  • Games
  • Heard

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

  

  Mahalia Jackson
  • Song
  • Eyes
  • Better