Quotes by Mavis Staples - Page 1

I have fun just about everywhere I go.
Mavis Staples / Singer
Fun
Having Fun
Have Fun
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I'm just singing what I feel in my heart.
Mavis Staples / Singer
Heart
My Heart
Singing
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Music is such a joy, just an absolute joy.
Mavis Staples / Singer
Absolutes
Joy
Music Is
Absolute
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I can't just turn over and sing disco or rock.
Mavis Staples / Singer
Disco
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My purpose: to lift your spirit and to motivate you.
Mavis Staples / Singer
Positive
Lift Your Spirits
Purpose
Spirit
You
Lift
Motivate
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I feel so good singing songs that I sang with my father.
Mavis Staples / Singer
Father
Singing
Song
Sang
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I just had a wonderful life, and I couldn't ask for anything else.
Mavis Staples / Singer
Asks
Wonderful
Wonderful Life
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Whenever somebody tells me they want me to stop singing, I'm gone.
Mavis Staples / Singer
Gone
Singing
Want
Whenever
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If I wasn't my age, I would turn a flip. I would do some cartwheels. That's how I feel.
Mavis Staples / Singer
Age
Cartwheels
Flip
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There is a great feeling in a small venue, with the closeness of the people and the intimacy.
Mavis Staples / Singer
Feelings
Intimacy
People
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If you don't get out among the people, how are you going to know what they need to hear about?
Mavis Staples / Singer
People Know Need
Among
Hear
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I sang with my father for over 50 years, and now all of a sudden he's gone, and I just dropped out.
Mavis Staples / Singer
Dropped
Sang
Sudden
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The best music of my life I heard at my grandmother's church, this little wooden church up on a hill.
Mavis Staples / Singer
Grandmother
Life Best Music
Hill
Wooden
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I get my voice from my mother's side of the family. My mother and my grandmother both had strong voices.
Mavis Staples / Singer
Voices
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I started writing letters home to my mother, saying that I wanted to come home, grandma won't let me sing.
Mavis Staples / Singer
Home
Grandma
Mother
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I'm old enough to be Obama's grandmom. But I still like seeing good-looking things. Nothing wrong with that.
Mavis Staples / Singer
Enough
Looking Good
Stills
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I never sang for a Grammy, for money, for fame. That's my whole purpose for singing: for people, for the fans.
Mavis Staples / Singer
Fans
Grammy
People
Singing
Sang
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I'm so blessed that I can still be here to bring the music and have new generations of fans. My Pops would be so proud.
Mavis Staples / Singer
Blessed
Fans
Would Be
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I'm singing these songs to inspire you, to keep you going, to lift you up and give you a reason to get up in the morning
Mavis Staples / Singer
Morning
Giving
Song
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I'm singing these songs to inspire you, to keep you going, to lift you up and give you a reason to get up in the morning.
Mavis Staples / Singer
Inspire
Reason
Singing
Lift
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I would get in fights a lot. My voice was so heavy, kids would say you sound like a boy, so I would start beating them up.
Mavis Staples / Singer
Kids
Boys
Fighting
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I won't wear rings and jewelry on the stage because I don't want you looking at my hands. I want you hearing what I'm saying.
Mavis Staples / Singer
Hands
Hearing
Jewelry
Rings
Want
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I was not fortunate enough to run into Obama. We were at the same church per se, but I would never be there when he was there.
Mavis Staples / Singer
Running
Church
Enough
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I don't know which way I'm going. My next CD might be country, might be Dylan, might be Mick Jagger. I don't know. I love a challenge.
Mavis Staples / Singer
Dylan
Jagger
Cd
Love Way Know
Mick Jagger
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There's still injustice happening in my world. I sing my songs at concerts and I'm so grateful that the people are ready to hear them.
Mavis Staples / Singer
Grateful
People
Song
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One day, when I was about eight years old, some kids pushed me on stage at school during a talent show because they knew I could sing.
Mavis Staples / Singer
Kids
School
Years
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We stay strong. We stay positive, keep our heads up, love one another, spread love. The Devil can't win when you have God on your side.
Mavis Staples / Singer
Stay Strong
Winning
Your Side
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It's been an amazing life. It's really just been the most magical thing for me - and I have these musical friends from all walks of life.
Mavis Staples / Singer
Amazing Life
Musical
Walks
Life Amazing Me
Magical
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Pops, he was a singer's singer. I loved to hear my father sing. He just was so laid-back and cool. I always wished I could sing like Pops.
Mavis Staples / Singer
Pops
Singer
Sing
Wished
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I have to pinch myself sometimes. It's unbelievable, but it's not. Because I know that this would not be happening if it hadn't been for Dr. Martin Luther King.
Mavis Staples / Singer
Kings
Dr Martin Luther King
Drs
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Pops always taught us that family is the strongest unit in the world. If you stick with your family, nobody can break you, nobody can harm you. You'll always have your family.
Mavis Staples / Singer
Family
Break
Harm
Pops
Taught
Always World Your
Family Always World
Nobody
Stick
Unit
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We've had a great change. Dr King saw to that. I was so grateful to see the 'colored only' signs come off the water fountains and bathrooms in the south. But the struggle lives on.
Mavis Staples / Singer
Grateful
Struggle
Water
Colored
Dr
Dr. King
Saw
Signs
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Well Lord, I'm still on the case. I'm still doing what Dr. King and Pops want me to do. I'm still on that freedom highway, and I'm going to walk on it until Dr. King's dream is realized.
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Dream
Kings
Drs
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The Devil is a liar. He cannot win. And that's all we're seeing is a bunch of devils [Donald Trump]. So we have to pray and just look out for one another. Keep your chest out, stick your head up and walk tall.
Mavis Staples / Singer
Devil
Liars
Winning
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My uncle was 16, in junior high, and he heard me singing and snatched me off the stage. I thought he was happy and was going to pat me on the head and say I was good. But he took me home and told my grandmother this youngin' was at school singing the blues.
Mavis Staples / Singer
Uncles
Home
Grandmother
School
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My high-school a cappella teacher would embarrass me in front of the choir. 'Mavis, you're in the basement. Mavis, you're singing with the boys.' I said, 'Mr. Finch, my voice isn't soprano. I can't sing up there with the girls.' So I just got out of the choir.
Mavis Staples / Singer
Teacher
Choir
Singing
Me Voice Singing
Teacher Me Voice
Basement
Mr
Cappella
Embarrass
Sing
Soprano
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The kids today have these fresh faces. It's like they're on pins and needles, waiting to see what I'm going to do. They've never seen me. In the 1960s, those were hippies. They were wired up already. The kids today know me because I've worked with Jeff Tweedy and other young producers.
Mavis Staples / Singer
Faces
Needles
Pins
Producers
Waiting
Hippies
Jeff
Wired
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When I come out of my dressing room, I go to my heart and say a little prayer and go out on stage. There I am, coming to lift you up and to motivate you. I want to bring joy. It's gospel, and gospel is the truth. It's what I do. I'm going to bring you the truth and lift up your spirit.
Mavis Staples / Singer
Prayer
Gospel
Dressing
Dressing Room
Lift
Motivate
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I've got to sing for Pops; I've got to keep my father's legacy alive because he started all of this. So I started calling people, and nobody would give me a chance, but I didn't let that stop me. I took money out the bank and I started making me a record, and I did it in this guy's basement.
Mavis Staples / Singer
Alive
Give Me
Legacy
Pops
Bank
Basement
Sing
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We enjoyed the fact that we were called to the folk festivals and we got to know Joan Baez, Dylan. We were singing strictly gospel, but then after we started hearing songs that they would sing, we saw that those songs were very fitting for us because they were singing the truth, and truth is gospel.
Mavis Staples / Singer
Festivals
Singing
Song
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My voice is my gift. And Pops had me using it in the right way. I had many offers to sing pop, to sing rhythm and blues. Pops said "Mavis, this record company want to give you a million dollars." I said, "No daddy, I want to sing with the family." And I did. I never wanted to branch out by myself. But I've had to now. It's my mission. I've been left here to do it. And I'm grateful.
Mavis Staples / Singer
Daddy
Grateful
Voice
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