Quotes about Contentment, page 59

If you want me to sing this Christmas song with the feeling and the meaning, you better see if you can locate that check.

Quote by Mahalia Jackson about contentment

It is easy to be independent when you've got money. But to be independent when you haven't got a thing, that's the Lord's test.

Quote by Mahalia Jackson about contentment

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.

Quote by Mahalia Jackson about contentment

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

Quote by Mahalia Jackson about contentment

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

Quote by Mahalia Jackson about contentment

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 contentment

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

Quote by Mahalia Jackson about contentment

When you sing gospel you have a feeling there is a cure for what's wrong.

Quote by Mahalia Jackson about contentment

Why you always shout cut just when the spirit's on me?

Quote by Mahalia Jackson about contentment

You're blessed if you have the strength to work.

Quote by Mahalia Jackson about contentment

A lot of times songs are very much of a moment, that you just encapsulate. They come to you, you write them, you feel good that day, or bad that day.

Quote by Mick Jagger about contentment

Acting is mostly interpretive. They use different parts of you, and different sides of you, and different so-called talents.

Quote by Mick Jagger about contentment

As a solo performer the last thing you want is your album to sound like the Rolling Stones. That's the greatest challenge.

Quote by Mick Jagger about contentment

Have I turned into a motorized preacher? We spend so much time in cars that if you don't try to get some experiences out of it, you can go crazy.

Quote by Mick Jagger about contentment

I am not a librarian of my own work. It's a good thing not to be too involved with what you have done.

Quote by Mick Jagger about contentment

I don't really like using guns too much, you know, even for sport.

Quote by Mick Jagger about contentment

I don't think that being in a full-time relationship is necessarily for everybody all of the time. It's not some state of grace that you're in, but who knows what will happen in the future?

Quote by Mick Jagger about contentment

If you are British, you soon get used to people not loving you. The Irish remind us of offenses from 100 years ago. Perhaps we should react to what the French did to us even longer ago.

Quote by Mick Jagger about contentment

It's all right letting yourself go, as long as you can get yourself back.

Quote by Mick Jagger about contentment

Lose your dreams and you might lose your mind.

Quote by Mick Jagger about contentment