Blues are the songs of despair, but gospel songs are the songs of hope..

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

Blues are the songs of despair..

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

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..

If you believe in God, He will open the windows of heaven and pour blessings upon you..

Gospel music rhythms are not African in origin, although I know that's what the jazz experts say..

Faith and prayer are the vitamins of the soul; man cannot live in health without them..

How can you sing of Amazing Grace? How can you sing prayerfully of heaven and earth and all God's wonders without using your hands?.

This is the place to see the stars - Hollywood Bowl..

I don't worry too much about the script, I just ad lib, like Pearl Bailey..

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

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

A great influence in my life was the sanctified or Holiness churches...Everybody in there sang and they clapped and stomped heir feet and sang with t….

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

Gospel songs are the songs of hope. When you sing gospel you have the feeling there is a cure for what's wrong, but when you are through with the blu….

Baby, black promoters oppressed me before white promoters ever got hold of me. Don't talk skin to me..

Everybody needs somebody..

I sing God's music because it makes me feel free. It gives me hope. With the blues, when you finish, you still have the blues..

Without a song, each day would be a century..

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