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

I'll come to any benefit if I see SCLC get all the money..

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

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

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….

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 ….

Money just draws flies..

If you don't like Louis Armstrong, you don't know how to love..

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

God can make you anything you want to be, but you have to put everything in his hands..

The trouble with records is that they're too short..

Do you know most of the Jewish songs have the same trend of sadness as Negro spirituals?.

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

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..

The old Devil gets mad when you're trying to do good. Pray that God will move the stumbling blocks..

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

They thought I was a success as soon as I started paying the bills..