I hope to bring people to God with my songs..

Put your mind on the gospel. And remember - there's one God for all..

Gospel music in those days of the early 1930s was really taking wing. It was the kind of music colored people had left behind them down South and the….

The mind and the voice by themselves are not sufficient..

I close my eyes when I sing so I can feel the song better..

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

Anybody singing the blues is in a deep pit yelling for help..

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

Time is important to me because I want to sing long enough to leave a message. I'm used to singing in churches where nobody would dare stop me until ….

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….

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

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

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

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..

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

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

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

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

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

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