Harps Quotes

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

I've played everything but a harp.

My pen is my harp and my lyre; my library is my garden and my orchard.

Your body is the harp of the soul.

I harp always on the 'idea' of life as I dwell perpetually on the existence of the moment.

If all the harps in the world were burned down, still inside the heart there will be hidden music playing.

And tears are heard within the harp I touch.

I started playing harp about fourteen years ago.

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

Not all who own a harp are harpers.

And even if this world burns up hidden harps will still play here.

What is a harp but an oversized cheese slicer with cultural pretensions?

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

This is what they all come to who exclusively harp on experience. They do not stop to consider that experience is only one half of experience.

A harp can be a dangerous as a sword, in the right hands.

Shall it not be scorn to me to harp on such a moulder'd string? I am shamed through all my nature to have lov'd so slight a thing.

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.

I've played everything but the harp.

So, you figure they won't notice you're back?" sneered the marquis. "Just, 'oh look, there's another angel, here, grab a harp and on with the hosannas'?

O harp of life, so speedily unstrung!

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.

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.