I started playing harp about fourteen years ago.

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

(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

Then I started checking out blues albums from the library and playing the harp along with them.

— John Goodman

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

A lot of people think Heaven is sitting around on a cloud playing a harp all day, doing nothing except being holy - and…

— David Berg

I've been unaware of how people react to the instrument. People have ideas of what a harp is supposed to sound like, and a…

— Joanna Newsom

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

— Joanna Newsom

I didn't really know a lot of the history when I was younger. I didn't realize that the harp is coded in such a…

— Joanna Newsom

My voice in combination with the harp - which, by the way, I use because I've played it my entire life, not to make…

— Joanna Newsom

I had known that people would probably have strange reactions to my voice, because I have kind of an unwieldy, difficult voice, but I…

— Joanna Newsom

I recorded harp first or singing first. I recorded it all together. Part of the reason is that I don't know how to play…

— Joanna Newsom

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

— Joanna Newsom

I'm fourteen years old; that's almost half-way to thirty. I need my own space.

— Alex Mack

He decided then that he would love her forever no matter what came to pass. It was not so much a matter of deciding…

— David Guterson