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.

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

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.

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

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

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.