Quotes by Mahalia Jackson, page 3

Mahalia Jackson - american Musician

Was born on 26 oct 1911.
Died on 27 jan 1972, at 60 years old.

Origin country: United States

Louie Armstrong don't have no signed paper. I know what you said, and you know what I said, and if that ain't enough, baby, we better split.

Money just draws flies.

Quote by Mahalia Jackson about money

My hands, my feet, I throw my whole body to say all that is within me.

Quote by Mahalia Jackson about body

My temple will help young people get an education. We will never have any peace with ignorance.

Quote by Mahalia Jackson about ignorance, education, help, peace, people

One doctor said I had a blood clot, the other doctor said I had a coronary. I don't know what I had.

Quote by Mahalia Jackson about blood

One thing about playing the real jazz is that you can't count it.

Quote by Mahalia Jackson about real estate, things

People listening to me Sunday nights ought to be in church; it's a bad time.

Quote by Mahalia Jackson about bad luck, bad, time, people

Please send protection to Dr. Martin Luther King and the civil rights marchers in Selma, Ala. Don't let him get killed.

Shoot me up with them astronauts? How they going to get somebody heavy as me up in a rocket? I'm not going, even for the President.

Someday the sun is going to shine down on me in some faraway place.

Quote by Mahalia Jackson about sun

Sometimes you ask God for something and you don't know what you're asking.

Quote by Mahalia Jackson about god

The Lord doesn't like us to be dead. Be alive. Sometimes I dance to the glory of the Lord, because He said so.

Quote by Mahalia Jackson about glory, dance

The National Baptists all come by my house - I tried to fix dinner for everybody; I was so tired-and I just went right into getting married.

Quote by Mahalia Jackson about home, house, rightness

The old Devil gets mad when you're trying to do good. Pray that God will move the stumbling blocks.

Quote by Mahalia Jackson about obstacles, devil, pray, old, olderness, god, good, good luck

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

Quote by Mahalia Jackson about problems

There's plenty more sound just like me down home.

Quote by Mahalia Jackson about home

They say I got a tired heart from working so hard; and I got diabetes.

Quote by Mahalia Jackson about heart

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

Quote by Mahalia Jackson about bills, thinking

This will be the first time I've been home without some emergency. I'm a child of the King.

Quote by Mahalia Jackson about children, home, time

Time is important to me because I want to sing long enough to leave a message.

Quote by Mahalia Jackson about time