Quotes About Revivals

#1. We take from the art of the past what we need. The variable posthumous reputations of even the greatest artists and the unpredictable revivals of interest in even the most obscure ones tend to reveal more about those who make revisionist assessments than about those who are being reassessed.

Martin Filler

#2. Even with revivals, I don't really pay attention to previous incarnations. I always just go with the script and with the director and am willing to treat it as brand new.

Kate Baldwin

#3. I love playing an ingenue, and I love doing revivals, and I will continue to do that.

Kelli O'Hara

#4. Rarely offstage, rarely on hiatus, Fiddler on the Roof has already been back on Broadway for four revivals, played London's West End four times, and remains among Broadway's longest-running shows ever.

Barbara Isenberg

#5. All great soul-winners have been men of much and mighty prayer, and all great revivals have been preceded and carried out by persevering, prevailing knee-work in the closet.

Samuel Logan Brengle

#6. There have been revivals without much preaching; there have been revivals with absolutely no organization; but there has never been a mighty revival without mighty praying.

Various

#7. Trying to run a church without revivals can be done when you can run a gasoline engine on buttermilk.

Billy Sunday

#8. If we want revivals, we must revive our reverence for the Word of God. If we want conversions, we must put more of God's Word into our sermons.8 His gospel preaching was grounded

Steven J. Lawson

#9. It is utterly impossible to divorce the story of student awakenings from the course of missions in countries overseas. From the beginning, one of the most immediate and dramatic effects of college revivals has been the recruitment of personnel for the work of Christ abroad.

J. Edwin Orr

#10. For everything that has not successfully transcended itself can only fall prey to revivals without end.

Jean Baudrillard

#11. I'm a conductor of revivals. The only minister in the whole package. Little Richard, the evangelist.

Little Richard

#12. We want a revival to come just in our way. You never saw two revivals come just alike. We must let them come in God's way. People are ashamed to admit they need a revival.

Mordecai

#13. Everything has become so pop-rock oriented that finding a role for a soprano, and finding an audience for a soprano, is tricky. Unless you're dealing with a revival, which is why I do so many revivals - because my specific tone and vocal quality lends itself to that type of writing.

Laura Benanti

#14. You have the same DNA as the greats of the past who started revivals.

Lou Engle

#15. I am so envious of my colleagues from 100 years ago who only sang new works, they hardly ever sang revivals.

Renee Fleming

#16. The history of art is the history of revivals.

Samuel Butler

#17. Producers want to put their music behind revivals but I don't think that's a good trend for the theater at all.

Harold Prince

#18. I used to go to these old tent revivals and listen to the gospel singers. If you think rock and roll is energetic, it pales in comparison to a Pentecostal tent revival.

Edgar Winter

#19. The music of the most popular operas is so highly esteemed, it can stand endless revivals.

Bruce Beresford

#20. New [10w] + {Couplet}
Poetry is fashion, its new arrivals
are simply just revivals.

Beryl Dov

#21. You might learn as much about how to write by reading Shakespeare, Tolstoy, Wallace Stevens, Raymond Chandler, Saul Bellow, Paul Muldoon or a hundred other good novelists or poets than by seeing another round of John Ford revivals.

David Denby

#22. The deadly monotony of Christian country life where there are no beggars to feed, no drunkards to credit, which are among the moral duties of Christians in cities, leads as naturally to the outvent of what Methodists call "revivals" as did the backslidings of the people in those days.

Corra May Harris

#23. I think when you start analyzing trends and start making shows for a particular audience, you are making a fatal move. I think that's why people are doing too many revivals, that's why there's a plethora of rock musicals. There's room for everything, but not room for too much of anything.

Harold Prince

#24. There have always been revivals. Some have always been successful. And many of them have failed.

Harold Prince

#25. You can't just keep recycling revivals. And you can't keep betting on the efforts of guys like me who've been around. You have to take the next step and bet on the next generation.

Harold Prince

#26. I began coming to Paris in the 1960s when I was told audiences here liked my work. More than 20 of my plays have been produced in Paris, and several have had long runs and have returned in revivals.

Israel Horovitz

#27. Some of the greatest spiritual revivals in the past occurred just when the situation seemed to be the darkest. In the history of our own nation, for example, countless thousands turned to Christ during the darkest days of the Civil War, setting the stage for national reconciliation later on.

Billy Graham

#28. History is silent about revivals that did not begin with prayer.

J. Edwin Orr

#29. The ideas which now pass for brilliant innovations and advances are in fact mere revivals of ancient errors, and a further proof of the dictum that those who are ignorant of the past are condemned to repeat it.

Henry Hazlitt

#30. The ministers, who preached at these revivals, were in earnest. They were zealous and sincere. They were not philosophers. To them science was the name of a vague dread - a dangerous enemy. They did not know much, but they believed a great deal.

Robert Green Ingersoll

#31. I don't have that kind of voice, the big baritone or rousing tenor sound. My wheelhouse was in the frothier pieces. So my appreciation for those older musicals and revivals grew.

Jesse Tyler Ferguson

#32. Future art that is based on appearances won't look like the art that's gone before. Even revivals of a period are not the same.

David Hockney

#33. We heard stories about fakery and decoys at revivals. I never personally saw any trickery.

Kathie Lee Gifford

#34. We need a revival in the country," Paul said. "We need another Great Awakening with tent revivals of thousands of people saying, 'reform or see what's going to happen if we don't reform.'

Rand Paul