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I've done all different kinds of genres - doo-wop, pop, funk, gospel, country, jazz, you name it.
Gospel music rhythms are not African in origin, although I know that's what the jazz experts say.
Gospel is just the truth of the word of God. Anybody can sing it, anybody; anybody can perform it.
I always loved Sam Cooke, because he seemed very versatile. He sang gospel, soul, blues, pop music.
Every generation has a right to hear the Gospel, the ABC's of the Gospel - the Gospel of salvation.
I am comfortable with anything I sing: jazz, gospel, classical. It doesn't matter. I can do it all.
I started listening to gospel when I was a little boy and my grandmother used to rock me on her lap.
I would say when I was 9 or 10 I started doing gospel choir, and I was with them for about two years.
The gospel needs to be preached all over the world. You cannot light a candle and put it under a roof.
The gospel funk soul era, that's what I'm obsessed with - pretty much all the '70s through early '80s.
My grandfather was in a barbershop quartet and my grandmother was in a gospel quartet with her sisters.
The falsetto stuff, it must be a reaction to the black gospel singers that I really enjoy listening to.
My dad was a monster and I realized if the gospel could change that dude, the gospel can change anybody.
Thanks to the restored gospel, we know our spirits lived before we were born into this mortal existence.
The poor evangelize you about what's important and what is the Gospel, and that that's where the joy is.
I had been stockpiling Gospel songs for other artists, and had planned to submit them to Gospel artists.
God writes the Gospel not in the Bible alone, but also on trees, and in the flowers and clouds and stars.
The great thing about Gospel is that you don't have to have an album every year in order to keep working.
The gospel announces that God doesn't relate to us based on our feats for Jesus, but Jesus' feats for us.
Christianity, Judaism and Islam all share a gospel, loosely, and it's important that we all realize that.
Christ's riches are unsearchable, and this doctrine of the gospel is the field this treasure is hidden in.
My church is the world! I want to bring the gospel to as broad and as interesting an audience as possible.
The music I love to sing would have to be gospel - it just uplifts me, it takes me to a really good place.
Urban is not actually my world. It was me trying something out, basically. I come from a gospel background.
Let me just tell you this, my aim in life is to preach the gospel of Jesus Christ, that's all I care about.
Communism introduced into the world a substitute for true religion. It is a counterfeit of the gospel plan.
He was an innovator, an experimenter, a missionary in bringing the gospel of good cooking to the home table.
My church people supported me when I made my transition from gospel to bounce and that made it a lot easier.
I've been getting into different gospel artists; Aretha Franklin is someone I've been listening to a lot of.
There's so many wonderful gospel people out there, and I don't necessarily want to compete with those people.
Let us all remember this: one cannot proclaim the Gospel of Jesus without the tangible witness of one's life.
The heart of the gospel is that you don't know Jesus without the witness of the church. It's always mediated.
Gospel influences your soul. If you've had church in your background... it's just a part of your musical DNA.
Well, the first band was at nine, and I was on the road when I was 12 with the Sullivan Family Gospel Singers.
I've always loved gospel music. Being raised in Mississippi, it was kind of part of the atmosphere down there.
Through the ages, many of His children have had access to the blessings of the gospel, but many more have not.
When I look at the Gospel, I see how it is speaking to me at this time. I see how to be to others and it helps.
My entrance to music was singing gospel in church, and to hear that gospel language in a hip-hop song was cool.
'Dance' got on WBLS and over 25 urban AC stations. I never had a record on urban AC and gospel stations before.
I like to listen to Beyonce or any type of upbeat music when I am working out. Gospel music always motivates me.
When I'm actually getting off the bus, I still have my gospel playing. That's the way-to-the-game kind of music.
Gospel music is never pessimistic, it's never 'oh my god, its all going down the tubes', like the blues often is.
I was always drawn to gospel music and the roots of African-American music. It's the foundation of rock and roll.
Let us preach Christ, let us be faithful to proclaiming the Gospel, but let's leave judgment in the hands of God.
Total immersion in and saturation with the Savior's gospel are essential steps in the process of being born again.
People love gospel music. It's calming. It's soothing. It gets right to the point of whatever you're dealing with.
It is absolutely important to make accessible the Gospel for all people and also understandable for Jewish people.
When I was doing mainstream country, there was no way that an executive was going to ask you to do a gospel album.
I was a big fan of black gospel. As a kid, there were black groups I sang with from my teen years to my early 20s.
I was imprisoned in Missouri in 1854 for preaching the gospel to Negroes, though I was never subjected to violence.