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Mahalia Jackson Quotes

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

Mahalia Jackson

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: musician
Nationality: american
Birth: October 26, 1911 - January 27, 1972

Topics

Me Song Better Meaning You Feeling

It's so empowering to see yourself as a machine.

Yourself See Machine Empowering

I chose to stay with tennis and they didn't understand that at the school.

School Understand Tennis Stay Chose

I make the majority of my money from Patron, but my passion is with Paul Mitchell: I spend 85 per cent of my time on it.

John Paul DeJoria

Passion Time Money Majority My Time

When Richard Pryor did comedy, it was like he was having a conversation.

Comedy Conversation Like He Did

I do atypical work for a white person, which is that I lead primarily white audiences in discussions on race every day, in workshops all over the country. That has allowed me to observe very predictable patterns. And one of those patterns is this inability to tolerate any kind of challenge to our racial reality.

Work Challenge Day Me Reality White

I have a lot of brothers and sisters, and each movie has helped pay for tuition. And then I was like, I only have one left in college, so why am I doing this? But now I want to go back to Italy and live on a farm in Tuscany.

Live College Doing Farm Back Want

Success is like a lightning bolt. It'll strike you when you least expect it, and you just have to keep the momentum going. You have to strike when the iron is hot. So for me, I just kept striking and striking to polish out the sword that I was making.

Success Me Momentum You Sword Hot

Texas is OK if you want to settle down and do your own thing quietly, but it's not for outrageous people, and I was always outrageous.

People Texas You Down Want Settle

Jazz musicians have always tended to have cult followings, which is pretty wonderful.

Musicians Jazz Always Pretty Cult

I was never really into partying.

Never Partying Really

It would seem that some black people want to say that when you, as a black, become successful, you cease to be black. That's ridiculous.

Clarence Thomas

People Black You Say Want Become

One day, I was just fingering around on the keys of a Fender Rhodes piano, and I came up with this little riff, and all of a sudden, it morphed into a song. It had never been touched by a guitar, which was very weird for us. 'Under the Ground' is the first song I have ever written that had nothing to do with the guitar.

Day Song Guitar Weird Nothing Never

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