The poets did well to conjoin music and medicine, because…

(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…

— Junior Wells

We've got a great team sport, but we harp on about individuals. It's a bit contradictory.

— Alun Wyn Jones

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

— Novalis

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

— Joanna Newsom

During the reign of Rameses III (the Twentieth Dynasty) Egypt saw a flowering of its civilization and the harp became the royal instrument of…

— Corinne Heline

Two touch the string, The harp is dumb.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Strike, with hand of fire, O weird musician, thy harp strung with Apollo's golden hair; fill the vast cathedral aisles with symphonies sweet and…

— Robert G. Ingersoll

“My music teacher offered twittering madrigals and something about how, in Italy, in Italy, the oranges hang on the tree. He treated me -…

— Mary Rose O'Reilley

I didn't sing for years and years, but I started playing harp when I was maybe 9 or 10. I had actually wanted to…

— Joanna Newsom

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

— Christopher Reeve

“He finally took his harp out of the cobwebs, walked out the door, and admitted who he was: the Unforgiven.”

— Patricia A. McKillip

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

“It’s a shameful indictment of the shabby way we live nowadays, but we have to face the fact that most of you won’t have…

— John Powell

Go ye, who rest so placidly upon the sacred Bard who had been young, and when he strung his harp was old, and had…

— Charles Dickens

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

— Jacqueline Carey