When you sing gospel you have a feeling there is a cure for what's wrong.
Faith and prayer are the vitamins of the soul; man cannot live in health without them.
One thing about playing the real jazz is that you can't count it.
If you want me to sing this Christmas song with the feeling and the meaning, you better see if you can locate that check.
I don't worry too much about the script, I just ad lib, like Pearl Bailey.
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.