Musician Quotes

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

I hope to bring people to God with my songs.

How can you sing of amazing grace and all God's wonders without using your hands?

Everybody needs somebody.

Money just draws flies.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

When people are in love, I don't see anything wrong with it in the world. If they choose to live their lives and get married, why should we interfere? A lot of people don't agree with me, but that's how I feel.

When I'm ready, I plan to adopt. I still believe in family.

When I finally decided to do the show, I only had two weeks to learn the choreography and the songs in French.

This is the first time in my life I've ever been happy, not completely happy, but happier than I've ever been.

This is a very big victory for Michael and we are all very proud that he has been completely and totally vindicated in court, as we were certain he would be.

The end of the trial and the 'not guilty' verdicts on all counts, clearing Michael of all charges, mean that he can now concentrate on the future and his art.

People had this image of the Jacksons as the perfect American family and I destroyed that image. But what people have to understand is writing that book was very healing for me.

Our marriage is strictly in name only. It has never been consummated.

Michael and I talk at least every two weeks. He understands why I've done the things I have.

J has told me about his past. I know what happened and why. But he is the one person who made me believe in my talent and whatever happened in the past, he's been a wonderful manager to me.

It was so strange. I knew that Josephine Baker had performed on the same stage but that night I felt it. Many of the same people who worked with Josephine Baker are still here. They know what they're doing. And that was a very comfortable feeling.

It is so difficult in the world for people to find love, true love.

I think the deepest problem is between my parents and me. I just don't know if it will ever be the same.

I married him because he told me it was the only way he could protect me. If we were just manager and client, my family could do whatever they wanted to get me back, but if I was his wife, they couldn't.