The Harp Quotes: top 52 famous quotes about The Harp

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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

(As a boy) I was listening to Sonny Boy Williamson's (I) records and I would close my eyes and I could visualize myself playing the harp. — Junior Wells

A lot of reality shows tend to harp on the negative. The person isn't pretty enough or can't sing well enough or maybe isn't even funny enough. — Bruce Nash

The harp is an insipid instrument
no good for dancing, feasting, or marching, only for sitting primly in a parlor or on a cloud. — Mason Cooley

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

The willow tree plays the water like a harp. — Ramon Gomez De La Serna

Your body is the harp of the soul. — Khalil Gibran

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

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

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

I don't harp on what I could change about the past, because I can't go back and change it. But definitely a lot of things I would change. — Vanilla Ice

The harp sounds at each passing breeze, but that does not mean the tune is masterfully played. — Jacqueline Carey

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

I've played everything but the harp. — Lionel Barrymore

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

If you're searching for true love, don't underestimate the power of keeping your knees together. — K.D. Harp

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

Your body is the harp of your soul and it is yours to bring forth sweet music from it or confused sounds. — Kahlil Gibran

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

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

But my body was like a harp and her words and gestures were like fingers running upon the wires. — James Joyce

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

If my words did glow with the gold of sunshine And my tunes were played on the harp unstrung — Grateful Dead

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

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

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

We all share in the same cosmic rhythm ... For all natural laws are like the rhythm of the strings of the harp. — Ernesto Cardenal

Nature is an aeolian harp, a musical instrument whose tones are the re-echo of higher strings within us. — Novalis

You only get one chance at pure love, otherwise, the rest will be a battle. — Kathleen Harp

A harp can be as dangerous as a sword, in the right hands. — Anonymous

If Saul could have had you for his David, the evil spirit would have been exorcised without the aid of the harp. — Charlotte Bronte

He finally took his harp out of the cobwebs, walked out the door, and admitted who he was: the Unforgiven. — Patricia A. McKillip

Last year the [harp seal] pup mortality rate was 100 percent in parts of the Gulf of St. Lawrence. — Brian Skerry

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

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

A writer is a strange instrument of our species, a harp of sorts, fine-tuned to the dark contradictions of life. — Chaim Potok

The perfection of conversation is not to play a regular sonata, but, like the AEolian harp, to await the inspiration of the passing breeze. — Edmund Burke

He may harp in the Dark One's Hall and take no harm, who is a true harper. — Tanith Lee

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

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

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

Sweet is the day of sacred rest;
No mortal cares shall seize my breast;
O may my heart in tune be found
Like David's harp of solemn sound. — Isaac Watts

The harp was so much more gestural and physical for me than the piano - something about bringing this instrument into your body. — Zeena Parkins

Glorious is the Voice of Man, and sweet is the music of the harp. — Richard Llewellyn

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

People become house builders through building houses, harp players through playing the harp. We grow to be just by doing things which are just. — Aristotle.

Fat heard in her rational tone the harp of nihilism, the twang of the void. — Philip K. Dick