Harp Quotes
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Harp Quotes & Sayings
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A girl wearing a wicker chicken and playing the harp bopped me with a book about buns and then stuffed me under a piano.
— Gail Carriger
The harp is an insipid instrumentno good for dancing, feasting, or marching, only for sitting primly in a parlor or on a cloud. — Mason Cooley
Me and my harp was a love affair from way back.
— Little Walter
It's defeatist to harp on what might have been, and yet, it's hard to resist considering what might have been.
— Christopher Reeve
The willow tree plays the water like a harp.
— Ramon Gomez De La Serna
Time has laid his handUpon my heart, gently, not smiting it,
But as a harper lays his open palm
Upon his harp, to deaden its vibrations. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Your body is the harp of the soul.
— Khalil Gibran
You know being and ex serviceman and a Disabled Gulf War Veteran. You could play Taps on a Jews Harp and I'd still cry
— Stanley Victor Paskavich
When (Big) Walter was in the right mood, he could be the most ferocious, the most inventive, the most dangerous harp player I ever heard.
— Charlie Musselwhite
Our life a harp is, with unnumbered strings, And tones and symphonies; but our poor skill Some shallow notes from its great music brings.
— John Boyle O'Reilly
Two touch the string,The harp is dumb. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Each string of a wind harp responds with a different note to the same breeze. What activity makes you personally resonate most strongly, most deeply?
— David Steindl-Rast
I play as many different things - piano, sax and harp parts - as I can at once. Whatever I can fit, whenever I need to.
— Stevie Ray Vaughan
There's something fundamental to the harp that has retained its appeal my whole life. It's an instrument I am just in love with.
— Joanna Newsom
I harp always on the 'idea' of life as I dwell perpetually on the existence of the moment.
— Marsden Hartley
Not all who own a harp are harpers.
— Marcus Terentius Varro
I've played everything but a harp.
— Hattie McDaniel
Every hidden cell is throbbing with music and life, every fiber thrilling like harp strings.
— John Muir
The harp sounds at each passing breeze, but that does not mean the tune is masterfully played.
— Jacqueline Carey
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— Ryan Graudin
Am I a harp that the hand of the mighty may touch me, or a flute that his breath may pass through me?
— Kahlil Gibran
If my words did glow with the gold of sunshine And my tunes were played on the harp unstrung
— Grateful Dead
Every day that you harp on this gloom and doom is another day you miss the blessed life you have here, right now, this instant." "Sandy,
— Jamie Kornegay
Your body is the harp of your soul and it is yours to bring forth sweet music from it or confused sounds.
— Kahlil Gibran
But my body was like a harp and her words and gestures were like fingers running upon the wires.
— James Joyce
Free thyself from the mighty attraction-The maddening wine of love, the charm of sex.
Break the harp! Forward, with the ocean's cry! ... — Swami Vivekananda
And tears are heard within the harp I touch.
— Petrarch
The living thing is not the clay molded by the potter, nor the harp played upon by the musician. It is the clay modeling itself.
— E.S. Russell
Then I started checking out blues albums from the library and playing the harp along with them.
— John Goodman
Pipes are not to be used for teaching, nor any artificial instruments, as the harp, or the like: but whatsoever will make the hearers good men.
— Thomas Aquinas
We are all lonely and all seek a hand to hold in the darkness. It is not the harp, but the hand that plays it.
— Bernard Cornwell
Less doth yearning trouble him who knoweth many songs, or with his hands can touch the harp: his possession is his gift of glee which God gave him.
— J.R.R. Tolkien
O harp of life, so speedily unstrung!
— Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Confidence is highly erotic.
— K.D. Harp
That last extraordinary Face had sent a throb through her very soul, like a breeze shivering the string of a harp, and she could not account for it.
— Frances Hardinge
I started playing harp about fourteen years ago.
— Joanna Newsom
This grimoire was written in the language of angels.""Shouldn't that be,like, harp music or chanting, and not hard-core hieroglyphics? — Rachel Hawkins
In winter, when the dismal rain Comes down in slanting lines,
And Wind, that grand old harper, smote
His thunder-harp of pines. — Alexander Smith
This is what they all come to who exclusively harp on experience. They do not stop to consider that experience is only one half of experience.
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Don't harp on things. People will think you're addled.
— Allan Dare Pearce
We all share in the same cosmic rhythm ... For all natural laws are like the rhythm of the strings of the harp.
— Ernesto Cardenal
A writer is a strange instrument of our species, a harp of sorts, fine-tuned to the dark contradictions of life.
— Chaim Potok
In the secret island the Druid shall dwell once more, and the Bard, the slave of the harp, utter the speech of the Gods.
— Lewis Spence
In her hand she held a harp, and she sang. Sad and sweet was the sound of her voice in the cool clear air.
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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Last year the [harp seal] pup mortality rate was 100 percent in parts of the Gulf of St. Lawrence.
— Brian Skerry
He finally took his harp out of the cobwebs, walked out the door, and admitted who he was: the Unforgiven.
— Patricia A. McKillip
If Saul could have had you for his David, the evil spirit would have been exorcised without the aid of the harp.
— Charlotte Bronte
I grew up with a beautiful gold harp sitting in our living room. My older sister played it.
— Diane Paulus
Glorious is the Voice of Man, and sweet is the music of the harp.
— Richard Llewellyn
I can't play my songs on the smaller harp. I have a Celtic harp. I can't do the key changes.
— Joanna Newsom
Cheaper'n recyclin' yer nose tissues. --Mema
— K.D. Harp
Where does music go when it's not playing? - she asked herself. And disarmed she would answer: May they make a harp out of my nerves when I die.
— Clarice Lispector
I've played everything but the harp.
— Lionel Barrymore
If you're searching for true love, don't underestimate the power of keeping your knees together.
— K.D. Harp
The harp was so much more gestural and physical for me than the piano - something about bringing this instrument into your body.
— Zeena Parkins
Love took up the harp of Life, and smote on all the chords with might; Smote the chord of Self, that, trembling, passed in music out of sight.
— Alfred Lord Tennyson
Kindness is the music of Good Will to men, and on this harp the smallest fingers may play heaven's sweetest tunes on earth.
— Elihu Burritt
By being silent he can do more than those who chatter. For he is in tune with the commandments as a harp is with its strings.
— Cyril Charles Richardson
