29 Harp Quotes for You to Enjoy

Those who have virtue always in their mouths, and neglect it in practice, are like a harp, which emits a sound pleasing to others, while itself is insensible of the music. Diogenes

Music Practice Others Virtue Neglect Harp Pleasing Those Insensible Like Always Sound Itself Mouths Which While Who

Harpists spend 90 percent of their lives tuning their harps and 10 percent playing out of tune. Igor Stravinsky

Spend Harp Out Percent Tune Tuning Lives Playing

And tears are heard within the harp I touch. Petrarch

Tears Harp Touch Within Heard

I am fascinated by the places that music comes from, like fife-and-drum blues from southern Mississippi or Cajun music out of Lafayette, Louisiana, shape-note singing, old harp singing from the mountains - I love that stuff. It's like the beginning of rock and roll: something comes down from the hills, and something comes up from the delta. Robbie Robertson

Love Music Old Singing Beginning Mountains Down Harp Out Something Delta Stuff Like Mississippi Hills Rock Rock And Roll Am Up Southern Louisiana Roll Blues Places Fascinated

Living in Manhattan opened me to whole new sets of things to envy, study, gather and imagine stealing. A full-size 1809 German harp, beautifully painted with three goddesses, covered in a pea-green coat of great silvery refinement: mine for $180. Though all its strings were broken, its beauty let it claim a quarter of my one - bedroom. Allan Gurganus

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When Evanescence took time off, I bought a big concert harp and started taking lessons like I was in high school again, which was really, really fun. I felt like I was learning again. Amy Lee

My first album didn't come out until I was 27, which in pop years is late, you know. But when it came time to arrange it, I became a kid in a toy shop. I had a harp and a saxophone quartet and a symphony orchestra. I went berserk for a time. Bjork

Time You First Symphony Symphony Orchestra Late Harp Saxophone Kid Out Berserk Had Come Know Toy Until Became Arrange Came Quartet Years Shop Orchestra Which Pop Album

I flipped through a book on harp seals in the late 1970s and saw images of them swimming in emerald green pools of water surrounded by huge sheets of ice. Right then I was hooked, and I knew this was a story I wanted to do. Brian Skerry

I was the first journalist allowed on a hunting boat during harp seal season in almost 15 years. Around the late 1970s, white coat pups became the poster child for the anti-fur movement, and by the '80s, the media was lambasting the hunters for killing them. Brian Skerry

It's defeatist to harp on what might have been, and yet, it's hard to resist considering what might have been. Christopher Reeve

Harp Considering Been Might Hard Resist

I've played everything but a harp. Hattie McDaniel

Everything Harp Played

I did it all, singing, the harp, piano. But I was so shy, I'd wake up at six to practice piano because I didn't want anyone to hear me play. But then I'd do a big show in school where everyone would see me, and that was actually alright. Jessie Buckley

Me School Wake Up Singing Practice Big Everyone Harp Would See Piano Alright Because Hear Wake Up Did Six Where Want Anyone Then Show Play Actually Shy

I started playing harp about fourteen years ago. Joanna Newsom

Harp About Years Years Ago Fourteen Started Playing

I can't play my songs on the smaller harp. I have a Celtic harp. I can't do the key changes. Joanna Newsom

Key Changes Harp Songs Smaller Celtic Play

I am producing sounds that people are not used to hearing from the harp. Joanna Newsom

People Harp Am Sounds Hearing Producing Used

I call myself a harp because I like the sound of the word - it is short, sharp, and abusive. John Gregory Dunne

Myself Word Harp Sharp Like Call Because Sound Short

I live again the days and evenings of my long career. I dream at night of operas and concerts in which I have had my share of success. Now like the old Irish minstrel, I have hung up my harp because my songs are all sung. John McCormack

Success Old Long Live Harp Hung Sung Dream Long Career Had Songs Share Days Like Operas Because Concerts Up Irish Which Again Evenings Now Career Night

For Ryan's Daughter I used a total of eight harps, something that was, at least, weird. Maurice Jarre

Daughter Harp Total Something Weird Least Eight Used

I search my name on Twitter because I don't want to miss the compliments, and I favorite the nice things people say about me so they know I saw it. People are more positive than they are negative, and I try not to harp on the negative. Nicole Byer

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Being a female guitar player back in school wasn't great, and I had to change schools so many times. The male drummers and bass players thought it was cool, but male guitar players said, 'It's a guy's thing. You should be doing something else, like playing the harp.' Orianthi

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