There's something fundamental to the harp that has retained its appeal my whole life. It's an instrument I am just in love… — Joanna Newsom Copy Share Image
I grew up with a beautiful gold harp sitting in our living room. My older sister played it. — Diane Paulus Copy Share Image
“She said all a body would have to do there [Heaven] was to go around all day long with a harp and… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“He may harp in the Dark One's Hall and take no harm, who is a true harper.” — Tanith Lee Copy Share Image
“Unless you're ready to mount a cloud 'n' learn harp music, you better let go of me!” — Charlotte McPherren Copy Share Image
The poets did well to conjoin music and medicine, because the office of medicine is but to tune the curious harp of… — Francis Bacon Sr Copy Share Image
A writer is a strange instrument of our species, a harp of sorts, fine-tuned to the dark contradictions of life. — Chaim Potok Copy Share Image
I am producing sounds that people are not used to hearing from the harp. — Joanna Newsom Copy Share Image
I didn't really know a lot of the history when I was younger. I didn't realize that the harp is coded in… — Joanna Newsom Copy Share Image
Each string of a wind harp responds with a different note to the same breeze. What activity makes you personally resonate most… — David Steindl-Rast Copy Share Image
“A gull on an invisible wire attached through space dragged. You carry the symbol of your frustration into eternity. Then the wings… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
“If a man cannot learn well a melody on pipe or harp, unless he in every way strain his attention; how shall… — John Chrysostom Copy Share Image
Fro and to in my dreams to you To the haunting tune of the harp For the price I paid when you… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
Our life a harp is, with unnumbered strings, And tones and symphonies; but our poor skill Some shallow notes from its great… — John Boyle O'Reilly Copy Share Image
“It’s a shameful indictment of the shabby way we live nowadays, but we have to face the fact that most of you… — John Powell Copy Share Image
So, you figure they won't notice you're back?" sneered the marquis. "Just, 'oh look, there's another angel, here, grab a harp and… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
My voice in combination with the harp - which, by the way, I use because I've played it my entire life, not… — Joanna Newsom Copy Share Image
Go ye, who rest so placidly upon the sacred Bard who had been young, and when he strung his harp was old,… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“There existed very long saxophones from years ago. The player sat on their chair like a cellist; that same sort of feeling… — James Kelman Copy Share Image
What is a harp but an oversized cheese slicer with cultural pretensions? — Denis Norden Copy Share Image
We've got a great team sport, but we harp on about individuals. It's a bit contradictory. — Alun Wyn Jones Copy Share Image
Not to harp on too much about Ma, but it's a misconception that she is formidable. She calls herself a patsy. — Rachael Stirling Copy Share Image
“How like a winter has been my hard spring away from you, my harp. --Psalm” — David Lehman Copy Share Image
“in her hand she held a harp, and she sang. Sad and sweet was the sound of her voice in the cool… — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
The harp was so much more gestural and physical for me than the piano - something about bringing this instrument into your… — Zeena Parkins Copy Share Image
Your body is the harp of your soul and it is yours to bring forth sweet music from it or confused sounds. — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
Nature is an aeolian harp, a musical instrument whose tones are the re-echo of higher strings within us. — Novalis Copy Share Image
It's defeatist to harp on what might have been, and yet, it's hard to resist considering what might have been. — Christopher Reeve Copy Share Image
My pen is my harp and my lyre; my library is my garden and my orchard. — Judah Halevi Copy Share Image
Then I started checking out blues albums from the library and playing the harp along with them. — John Goodman Copy Share Image
“If my words did glow with the gold of sunshine And my tunes were played on the harp unstrung” — Grateful Dead Copy Share Image
No man can force the harp of his own individuality into the people's heart; but every man may play upon the chords… — Lajos Kossuth Copy Share Image
“Ser Rodrik groused. His opinion of singers was well known; music was a lovely thing for girls, but he could not comprehend… — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
“Pipes are not to be used for teaching, nor any artificial instruments, as the harp, or the like: but whatsoever will make… — St. Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
The beauty of recording in L.A. is that most of the musicians that are on the record live here, so it was… — Jeffrey Osborne Copy Share Image
“Every harper plays upon his hearers as he does upon the strings of his harp. It is so that the music comes,… — Rosemary Sutcliff Copy Share Image
If my words did glow with the gold of sunshine And my tunes were played on the harp unstrung Would you hear… — Robert Hunter Copy Share Image
“His opinion of singers was well known; music was a lovely thing for girls, but he could not comprehend why any healthy… — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
I recorded harp first or singing first. I recorded it all together. Part of the reason is that I don't know how… — Joanna Newsom Copy Share Image
I never learned how to tune a harp, or play upon a lute; but I know how to raise a small and… — Themistocles Copy Share Image