Blues are the songs of despair, but gospel songs are the songs of hope.
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 the Lord arrives!
Money just draws flies.
This is the place to see the stars - Hollywood Bowl.
The trouble with records is that they're too short.
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 they liked it because it was just like a letter from home.