Great music Quote by John Boyle O'Reilly

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

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

I've played everything but a harp.

— Hattie McDaniel

Two touch the string, The harp is dumb.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I've played everything but the harp.

— Lionel Barrymore

While a man is stringing a harp, he tries the strings, not for music, but for construction. When it is finished it shall be…

— Henry Ward Beecher

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

— Zeena Parkins

“Harping should be limited to musical instruments. - Charmainism”

— Charmaine Smith Ladd

Harpists spend 90 percent of their lives tuning their harps and 10 percent playing out of tune.

— Igor Stravinsky

Oh God, the terrible tyranny of the majority. We all have our harps to play. And it's up to you to know with which…

— Ray Bradbury

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

— Jacqueline Carey