Circles Quote by Mahan Esfahani

I mean, already in the French Revolution, the harpsichord becomes identified with the aristocracy, with the ancien regime. Plus, hey, you know, I mean,…

— Mahan Esfahani

Well, harpsichord is kind of a big guitar, isn't it? I mean, it is plucked, after all.

— Mahan Esfahani

I don't use the harpsichord because it evokes a past time period: I use it because I like the sound.

— Julia Holter

Someday we may have as many followers as the harpsichord.

— Eddie Condon

As long as there's a place for sundials and gardening and beautiful things, there's a place for the harpsichord. I completely reject the idea…

— Mahan Esfahani

I mean to me, the harpsichord has a huge dynamic range. And I always say to people, come and listen to it. You know,…

— Mahan Esfahani

“Your friend Mr. Tulip would perhaps like part of your payment to be the harpsichord?" said the chair. "It's not a --ing harpsichord, it's…

— Terry Pratchett

There used to be a certain condescension to Mozart. His music was regarded as pleasant. He was a porcelain figure playing a porcelain harpsichord.

— Peter Shaffer

The simple act of sitting down and playing something enormously complex and spiritually uplifting on a harpsichord just bores kids to tears. There's no…

— David Ogden Stiers

I think I was drawn to the harpsichord because of the similarity of touch between the harpsichord and the tracker organ. When you press…

— Barbara Harbach

One of the tracks that I have is Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach - by the way, that's Bach's second son - Emanuel Bach's variations…

— Mahan Esfahani

It is difficult to understand the fortunes of an instrument. There was music written for the guitar until the mid-19th century. Then the instrument…

— Julian Bream