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Mavis Staples
Mavis Staples
American Musician
Born: Jul 10, 1939
Father Just Me People Singing You
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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
Morning You Inspire Singing Give Lift Songs Up Get Going Reason Keep
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
Family You World Strongest Nobody Stick Always Taught Break Us Your Pops Unit Harm
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
Teacher Me You Girl Singing Embarrass Out Would Voice Soprano Sing Boy Said Got Up Front Just Choir Cappella Basement
I get my voice from my mother's side of the family. My mother and my grandmother both had strong voices. Mavis Staples
Family Strong Mother Side Voice Both Voices Had Get Grandmother
The best music of my life I heard at my grandmother's church, this little wooden church up on a hill. Mavis Staples
Life Music Best Church My Life Hill Heard Up Wooden Little Grandmother
There are songs that I have to play! Mavis Staples
Songs Play
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
Me People Money Father Took Alive Out Would Record Give Give Me Guy He Nobody Sing Calling Because Got Making Legacy Did Bank Stop Pops Keep Basement Started Chance
Whenever somebody tells me they want me to stop singing, I'm gone. Mavis Staples
Me Somebody Singing Gone Tells Stop Whenever Want
I feel so good singing songs that I sang with my father. Mavis Staples
Good Father Singing Songs Feel Sang
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
Today Me Waiting Seen Young Other Those Kids See Faces Wired Never Like Know Because Fresh Hippies Were Pins Up Going Worked Producers Jeff Needles
I'm just singing what I feel in my heart. Mavis Staples
Heart Singing Feel Just

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