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The beauty of recording in L.A. is that most of the musicians that are on the record live here, so it was easy to get world class artists like Rick Braun to swing by and play a little trumpet, Everette Harp on sax, guitarist Paul Jackson. -- Jeffrey Osborne
Arcitc Harp seal pup populations are declining as they are commercially hunted for oil and fur and global warming causes the ice where pups are born to break up and melt. Now these sweet and adorable pups face yet another human threat: oil spills. -- Zoe Helene
I've played everything but a harp. -- Hattie McDaniel
I started playing harp about fourteen years ago. -- Joanna Newsom
And tears are heard within the harp I touch. -- Petrarch
I am producing sounds that people are not used to hearing from the harp. -- Joanna Newsom
Then I started checking out blues albums from the library and playing the harp along with them. -- John Goodman
I grew up with a beautiful gold harp sitting in our living room. My older sister played it. -- Diane Paulus
I can't play my songs on the smaller harp. I have a Celtic harp. I can't do the key changes. -- Joanna Newsom
It's defeatist to harp on what might have been, and yet, it's hard to resist considering what might have been. -- Christopher Reeve
A lot of reality shows tend to harp on the negative. The person isn't pretty enough or can't sing well enough or maybe isn't even funny enough. -- Bruce Nash
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
I have been in Sorrow's kitchen and licked out all the pots. Then I have stood on the peaky mountain wrapped in rainbows, with a harp and sword in my hands. -- Zora Neale Hurston
Those who have virtue always in their mouths, and neglect it in practice, are like a harp, which emits a sound pleasing to others, while itself is insensible of the music. -- Diogenes
When Evanescence took time off, I bought a big concert harp and started taking lessons like I was in high school again, which was really, really fun. I felt like I was learning again. -- Amy Lee
I don't harp on the negative because if you do, then there's no progression. There's no forward movement. You got to always look on the bright side of things, and we are in control. Like, you have control over the choices you make. -- Taraji P. Henson
It's totally different. I usually don't tell people about the Pleased if they know me from the harp. And if they are there to see the Pleased, I usually don't tell them about the harp. I am nervous that these people will expect something similar. -- Joanna Newsom
I live again the days and evenings of my long career. I dream at night of operas and concerts in which I have had my share of success. Now like the old Irish minstrel, I have hung up my harp because my songs are all sung. -- John McCormack
I flipped through a book on harp seals in the late 1970s and saw images of them swimming in emerald green pools of water surrounded by huge sheets of ice. Right then I was hooked, and I knew this was a story I wanted to do. -- Brian Skerry
I was the first journalist allowed on a hunting boat during harp seal season in almost 15 years. Around the late 1970s, white coat pups became the poster child for the anti-fur movement, and by the '80s, the media was lambasting the hunters for killing them. -- Brian Skerry
My first album didn't come out until I was 27, which in pop years is late, you know. But when it came time to arrange it, I became a kid in a toy shop. I had a harp and a saxophone quartet and a symphony orchestra. I went berserk for a time. -- Bjork
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 the songs without also singing. I forget how they progress. I don't think that any of them are verse, chorus, verse, and so on. They are not simple. -- Joanna Newsom
I am fascinated by the places that music comes from, like fife-and-drum blues from southern Mississippi or Cajun music out of Lafayette, Louisiana, shape-note singing, old harp singing from the mountains - I love that stuff. It's like the beginning of rock and roll: something comes down from the hills, and something comes up from the delta. -- Robbie Robertson
I've played everything but the harp. -- Lionel Barrymore
O harp of life, so speedily unstrung! -- Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Your body is the harp of the soul. -- Khalil Gibran
Not all who own a harp are harpers. -- Marcus Terentius Varro
Two touch the string, The harp is dumb. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The willow tree plays the water like a harp. -- Ramon Gomez de la Serna
Me and my harp was a love affair from way back. -- Little Walter
What is a harp but an oversized cheese slicer with cultural pretensions? -- Denis Norden
A harp can be a dangerous as a sword, in the right hands. -- George R. R. Martin
Glorious is the Voice of Man, and sweet is the music of the harp. -- Richard Llewellyn
Every hidden cell is throbbing with music and life, every fiber thrilling like harp strings. -- John Muir
My pen is my harp and my lyre; my library is my garden and my orchard. -- Judah Halevi
You can't worry about what people say, but... People always harp on athletes being selfish individualists. -- Chris Bosh
The harp sounds at each passing breeze, but that does not mean the tune is masterfully played. -- Jacqueline Carey
Nature is an aeolian harp, a musical instrument whose tones are the re-echo of higher strings within us. -- Novalis
Last year the [harp seal] pup mortality rate was 100 percent in parts of the Gulf of St. Lawrence. -- Brian Skerry
I harp always on the 'idea' of life as I dwell perpetually on the existence of the moment. -- Marsden Hartley
But my body was like a harp and her words and gestures were like fingers running upon the wires. -- James Joyce
A writer is a strange instrument of our species, a harp of sorts, fine-tuned to the dark contradictions of life. -- Chaim Potok
Your body is the harp of your soul and it is yours to bring forth sweet music from it or confused sounds. -- Khalil Gibran
We all share in the same cosmic rhythm... For all natural laws are like the rhythm of the strings of the harp. -- Ernesto Cardenal
In winter, when the dismal rain Comes down in slanting lines, And Wind, that grand old harper, smote His thunder-harp of pines. -- Alexander Smith
Free thyself from the mighty attraction- The maddening wine of love, the charm of sex. Break the harp! Forward, with the ocean's cry!. . . -- Swami Vivekananda
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
The harp was so much more gestural and physical for me than the piano - something about bringing this instrument into your body. -- Zeena Parkins
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
Kindness is the music of Good Will to men, and on this harp the smallest fingers may play heaven's sweetest tunes on earth. -- Elihu Burritt
Strike the concertina's melancholy string! Blow the spirit-stirring harp like any thing! Let the piano's martial blast Rouse the Echoes of the Past -- W.S. Gilbert
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
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The perfection of conversation is not to play a regular sonata, but, like the AEolian harp, to await the inspiration of the passing breeze. -- Edmund Burke
The living thing is not the clay molded by the potter, nor the harp played upon by the musician. It is the clay modeling itself. -- E.S. Russell
Each string of a wind harp responds with a different note to the same breeze. What activity makes you personally resonate most strongly, most deeply? -- David Steindl-Rast
Our life contains a thousand springs, And dies if one be gone. Strange! that a harp of thousand strings Should keep in tune so long. -- Isaac Watts
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
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. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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'? -- Neil Gaiman
(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 the harp. -- Junior Wells
She said all a body would have to do there [Heaven] was to go around all day long with a harp and sing, forever and ever. -- Mark Twain
I play as many different things - piano, sax and harp parts - as I can at once. Whatever I can fit, whenever I need to. -- Stevie Ray Vaughan
Time has laid his hand Upon my heart, gently, not smiting it, But as a harper lays his open palm Upon his harp, to deaden its vibrations. -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Sweet is the day of sacred rest; No mortal cares shall seize my breast; O may my heart in tune be found Like David's harp of solemn sound. -- Isaac Watts
Love took up the harp of Life, and smote on all the chords with might; Smote the chord of Self, that, trembling, passed in music out of sight. -- Alfred Lord Tennyson
I hold it truth, with him who sings To one clear harp in divers tones, That men may rise on stepping-stones Of their dead selves to higher things. -- Alfred Lord Tennyson
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. -- Alfred Lord Tennyson
Each class preaches the importance of those virtues it need not exercise. The rich harp on the value of thrift, the idle grow eloquent over the dignity of labor. -- Oscar Wilde
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 lot of them are negative ideas. -- Joanna Newsom
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
The poets did well to conjoin music and medicine, in Apollo, because the office of medicine is but to tune the curious harp of man's body and reduce it to harmony. -- Francis Bacon
Man becomes virtually an automaton in the loss of his individuality and responsibility. He is the harp of a thousand strings played upon by a divine hand, but not a man! -- John Grier Hibben
We must get away from the traditional idea that the saints in Heaven have one eternal holiday; that they have nothing to occupy them save playing a harp and incessantly singing. -- Herbert Lockyer
Life is like the harp string, if it is strung too tight it won't play, if it is too loose it hangs, the tension that produces the beautiful sound lies in the middle. -- Gautama Buddha
I love making people sing. I love group singing, sacred harp singing, choral singing, recordings of people singing sea shanties, work songs, prison songs - how people just sang to get through things. -- Matana Roberts
No man can force the harp of his own individuality into the people's heart; but every man may play upon the chords of the people's heart, who draws his inspiration from the people's instinct. -- Lajos Kossuth
Sing unto the Lord with thanksgiving; sing praise upon the harp unto our God: Who covereth the heaven with clouds, who prepareth rain for the earth, who maketh grass to grow upon the mountains. -- David

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