Jonny Lang Quotes

I grew up on a lot of gospel music.

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 love listening to gospel records.

Gospel music was very prevalent in my house. My mother also loved Nat King Cole. That was some of the first music that I heard. Mahalia Jackson, Nat King Cole and the Mississippi Mass Choir.

Like all soul singers, I grew up singing in church but sometimes I would leave early and sit in the car listening to gospel band, The Blind Boys of Alabama. Hearing their lead singer Clarence made me connect the idea of church and show business and see how I could make a career singing music that stirred the soul.

I'm associated with gospel music in the minds of millions of people.

My brothers and I had a gospel quartet, and that was the only music people listened to. But I was already gravitating towards songs by Sam Cooke, and then one day I put on a Jackie Wilson record, and baby, I was thrown right out of the house.

I started out in gospel music. A lot of people don't know that I started out in gospel music, and I've never lost sight of it.

I was influenced by gospel and Christian music from a very young age.

We played, jazz, blues, dixie, and it all came from the church. When I went to church, I would see the sisters and brothers doing the same beat.

My favorite singers in the world have been black singers, and you can go to any church and hear the best singers in the world - and I'm a singer, and I love singing!

And whether you're drawn to gospel music or church music or honky-tonk music, it informs your character and it informs your talent.

I'm a big fan of gospel music, and you cannot be a fan of rock and roll, you cannot be a fan of country western music, and you can't really be a fan of jazz without listening to a lot of music that's religious.

For me, when I grew up playing music, I played music in church and people were shouting and having a big time, and church wasn't something where it was subdued. If you played something, you brought it to church with you.

I grew up listening to gospel. That was the only thing that I had reference to because that was what my family was involved with.

The most consistent musical experience I had growing up was church music.

I find most 'sacred music' pretty dismal.

I was born in Alabama and my first live music experiences were in church. Every Sunday we watched regional gospel groups on television singing their hearts out.

Women are a key part of the sound of the groups that accompany male singers like Kirk Franklin, Israel Houghton, and myself.

I listen to gospel music.

I've done gospel songs on every album.

Country music is so related to gospel. It seems I could go down that road pretty easily.

Certainly, gospel was my background - is my background.

I'm from the gospel world. I grew up playing in church.

The gospel music and doo-wop is what has informed me personally.