Revival Quote by William Christopher Handy Download Open image “The blues - the sound of a sinner on revival day.” — William Christopher Handy ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.2 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Revival Sinner Sound
The blues is celebration, because when you take sorrow and turn it into music, you transform it. — Odetta Copy Share Image
See, that's nothing but blues, that's all I'm singing about. It's today's blues. — Jimi Hendrix Copy Share Image
The blues echoes right through into soul, R&B and hip hop. It's part of the make-up of modern music. You can't turn your back… — Ronnie Wood Copy Share Image
My definition of the blues is the naked cry of the human heart longing to be in union with God. — Dion DiMucci Copy Share Image
I'm a bluesman moving through a blues-soaked America, a blues-soaked world, a planet where catastrophe and celebration... "Joy and Pain" - sit side by side. The blues started off in some field, in some plantation, in some mind, in some imagination, in some heart. The blues blew over to the next plantation, and then the next state. The blues went… — Cornel West Copy Share
The blues is a hopeful music. It helps you process something rather than avoid it. It's like mourning, in essence. — Ted Alexandro Copy Share Image
The blues is so expressive - nostalgic but not sentimental, mournful but not pathetic, so humble and close to the earth. It's a nuance-filled… — Ry Cooder Copy Share Image
My big ears indicated a talent for music. This thrilled me. — William Christopher Handy Copy Share Image
With a guitar I would be able to express the things I felt in sounds. — William Christopher Handy Copy Share Image
Life is like a trumpet - if you don't put anything into it, you don't get anything out of it. — William Christopher Handy Copy Share Image
If my serenade of song and story should serve as a pillow for some composer's head, as yet perhaps unborn, to dream and build… — William Christopher Handy Copy Share Image
I knew the whistle of each of the river boats on the Tennessee. — William Christopher Handy Copy Share Image
In the South of long ago whenever a new man appeared for work in any of the laborers gangs, he would be asked if… — William Christopher Handy Copy Share Image
You've got to appreciate the things that come from the art of the Negro and from the heart of the man farthest down. — William Christopher Handy Copy Share Image
Whenever I heard the song of a bird and the answering call of its mate, I could visualize the notes in scale, all built… — William Christopher Handy Copy Share Image
The name of my ailment was longing, and it was not cured till I finally went to the department store and counted out the… — William Christopher Handy Copy Share Image
You can never tell what's in a woman's mind, And if she's from Harlem, there's no use o' tryin — William Christopher Handy Copy Share Image
“again. Here is a sober lesson. Even after times of spectacular revival, reformation, or covenantal renewal, the people of God are never more than… — D.A. Carson Copy Share Image
There are different kinds of fire; there is false fire. No one knows this better than we do, but we are not such fools… — William Booth Copy Share Image
Revival is the Spirit's passion within the believer to know and to obey the total will of God. — Leonard Ravenhill Copy Share Image
I therefore think that I was right in trying from the outset of the Olympic revival to rekindle a religious awareness. — Pierre de Coubertin Copy Share Image
A love revolution is forming far out to sea like a series of waves that build on one another until the whole earth is… — Julia Loren Copy Share Image
Some novelists are luckier than others in the eras of their formative intellectual years, but all Weltanschauungs return, which means that most novelists have… — Jane Smiley Copy Share Image
Theater criticism should be visceral, at least on some level, an articulation of that fierceness and passion. I usually do a fair amount of… — Ben Brantley Copy Share Image
If we want revivals, we must revive our reverence for the Word of God. — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
I am convinced that America can be turned around if we will all get serious about the Master's business. It may be late, but… — Jerry Falwell Copy Share Image
Satan laughs at our toil, mocks at our wisdom, but trembles when we pray. — Samuel Chadwick Copy Share Image
When real revival happens, it changes the moral climate of a community...because we've turned from our wicked ways. — Rick Warren Copy Share Image
Many people are alienated by faceless bureaucracy and what they see as an erosion of participatory democracy. Consequently, there has been a revival of… — Frank Prochaska Copy Share Image
