Mavis Staples Quotes and Sayings - Page 1

“My purpose: to lift your spirit and to motivate you.”
-- Mavis Staples

#Purpose #Spirit #Lift Your Spirits
“Music is such a joy, just an absolute joy.”
-- Mavis Staples

#Joy #Music Is
“I have fun just about everywhere I go.”
-- Mavis Staples

#Fun #Having Fun
“I never sang for a Grammy, for money, for fame. That's my whole purpose for singing: for people, for the fans.”
-- Mavis Staples

#People #Singing #Purpose
“I feel so good singing songs that I sang with my father.”
-- Mavis Staples

#Song #Father #Singing
“Whenever somebody tells me they want me to stop singing, I'm gone.”
-- Mavis Staples

#Singing #Gone #Want
“I'm just singing what I feel in my heart.”
-- Mavis Staples

#Heart #Singing #My Heart
“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

#Hands #Want #Hearing
“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

#Song #Singing #Festivals

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