American - Musician | August 27, 1961 -
You have to take criticism with a grain of salt because you're never going to please everybody.
Yolanda Adams
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There is a sound that comes from gospel music that doesn't come from anything else. It is a sound of peace. It is a sound of, 'I'm going to make it through all of this.'
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It's not just about getting a song on the radio or appearing on television. It really is about helping people change their lives one day at a time.
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Good food is healthy food. Food is supposed to sustain you so you can live better, not so you can eat more. Some people eat to live, and some people live to eat.
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People love gospel music. It's calming. It's soothing. It gets right to the point of whatever you're dealing with.
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As humans, we have the tendency to call on God only when we think that we're in dire straits as opposed to cultivating a real relationship with Him every day. And that's what my music tries to convey to all the listeners - try to cultivate it every day.
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My direction has never really changed, because I don't think that you can really work gimmicks in gospel music. With gospel music, there is this central theme that always comes around about the love of God, the love of Jesus and the power that you have through Jesus Christ. You don't need a gimmick when you have that.
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God is love. He loves everybody. He loves you.
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I was brought up by great parents and great grandparents who told me, 'Never, ever think that you're better than anyone else or that what you do is so important that the world won't miss you once you're gone,' and I kind of translate that into the stardom thing.
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I do a medley of hymns in all of my sets, whether I'm in an arena, in a theater, in an amusement park.
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Of course, my faith has a lot to do with being able to be public without being a public nuisance.
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The great thing about Gospel is that you don't have to have an album every year in order to keep working.
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