quotes about Harps
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What I'd like to do now - well, what I'd like to do now is grow my beard very long, weave it into my pubes and strum it like a harp.
-- Bill Bailey -
It's defeatist to harp on what might have been, and yet, it's hard to resist considering what might have been.
-- Christopher Reeve -
What is a harp but an oversized cheese slicer with cultural pretensions?
-- Denis NordenSource : Frank Muir, Denis Norden (1984). “The utterly ultimate 'My word!' collection”, Methuen Pub Ltd
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Harpists spend 90 percent of their lives tuning their harps and 10 percent playing out of tune.
-- Igor Stravinsky -
I started playing harp about fourteen years ago.
-- Joanna Newsom -
My pen is my harp and my lyre; my library is my garden and my orchard.
-- Judah Halevi -
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Not all who own a harp are harpers.
-- Marcus Terentius VarroSource : Marcus Porcius Cato, Marcus Terentius Varro (1967). “Marcus Porcius Cato, On agriculture; Marcus Terentius Varro. On agriculture”
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I harp always on the 'idea' of life as I dwell perpetually on the existence of the moment.
-- Marsden HartleySource : Marsden Hartley (2011). “Adventures in the Arts”, p.9, Hol Art Books
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If all the harps in the world were burned down, still inside the heart there will be hidden music playing.
-- Rumi -
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O harp of life, so speedily unstrung!
-- Thomas Bailey AldrichSource : Thomas Bailey Aldrich (1907). “The Writings of Thomas Bailey Aldrich: Poems”
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I don't harp on what I could change about the past, because I can't go back and change it. But definitely a lot of things I would change.
-- Vanilla Ice -
The harp was so much more gestural and physical for me than the piano - something about bringing this instrument into your body.
-- Zeena Parkins -
When (Big) Walter was in the right mood, he could be the most ferocious, the most inventive, the most dangerous harp player I ever heard.
-- Charlie Musselwhite -