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Harpists spend 90 percent of their lives tuning their harps and 10 percent playing out of tune. -- Igor Stravinsky
For Ryan's Daughter I used a total of eight harps, something that was, at least, weird. -- Maurice Jarre
At Bloomington, Indiana, I was invited to listen to music written in quarter tones for four harps and voices. I had to go out to be sick. -- Elisabeth Schwarzkopf
The actor should not play a part. Like the Aeolian harps that used to be hung in the trees to be played only by the breeze, the actor should be an instrument played upon by the character he depicts. -- Alla Nazimova
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
The willow tree plays the water like a harp. -- Ramon Gomez de la Serna
What is a harp but an oversized cheese slicer with cultural pretensions? -- Denis Norden
I am producing sounds that people are not used to hearing from the harp. -- Joanna Newsom
I can't play my songs on the smaller harp. I have a Celtic harp. I can't do the key changes. -- Joanna Newsom
If all the harps in the world were burned down, still inside the heart there will be hidden music playing. -- Rumi
Heaven is on this earth. There are no angels on the clouds with twanging harps... That's just another man's fantasy. -- John Lydon
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
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
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
My soul is a hidden orchestra; I know not what instruments, what fiddlestrings and harps, drums and tamboura I sound and clash inside myself. All I hear is the symphony. -- Fernando Pessoa
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
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
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
And what if all of animated nature Be but organic harps diversely framed, That tremble into thought, as o'er them sweeps, Plastic and vast, one intellectual breeze, At once the soul of each, and God of all? -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Think of what you are, you Christians. You are God's children; you are joint heirs with Christ. The 'many mansions' are for you; the palms and harps of the glorified are for you. You have a share in all that Christ has and is and shall be. -- Charles Spurgeon
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
Western Christians have imagined that, at the end of the day, God is going to throw the present space-time universe into a trashcan and we'll be sitting on clouds playing harps. The ultimate future that we're promised is much more interesting than that. It's new heavens and a new Earth with new bodies to live in. -- N. T. Wright
The receptivity of the masses is very limited, their intelligence is small, but their power of forgetting is enormous. In consequence of these facts, all effective propaganda must be limited to a very few points and must harp on these in slogans until the last member of the public understands what you want him to understand by your slogan. -- Adolf Hitler
If we affirm one moment, we thus affirm not only ourselves but all existence. For nothing is self-sufficient, neither in us ourselves nor in things; and if our soul has trembled with happiness and sounded like a harp string just once, all eternity was needed to produce this one event - and in this single moment of affirmation all eternity was called good, redeemed, justified, and affirmed. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Hills tell old stories. Cliffs are poets with harps -- George MacKay
And even if this world burns up hidden harps will still play here. -- Rumi
A happy union with wife and child is like the music of lutes and harps. -- Confucius
And the wind plays on those great sonorous harps, the shrouds and masts of ships. -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Economists are like Aeolian harps, and the sounds that issue from them are determined by the winds that blow. -- Rebecca West
It's interesting when something new comes along, a band of dwarfs playing electronic harps or something, but I'm not searching. -- Jimmy Page
Every element has a sound, an original sound from the order of God; all those sounds unite like the harmony from harps and zithers. -- Hildegard of Bingen
There are vast realms of consciousness still undreamed of -vast ranges of experience, like humming of unseen harps, we know nothing of, within us. -- D. H. Lawrence
Some take their gold in minted mold, and some in harps thereafter, but give me mine in bubbles fine and keep the change in laughter. -- Oliver Herford
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 ear you'll listen. -- Ray Bradbury
Heaven must be populated with some rather strange creatures if all they lived for was to go to a place where they can strum harps for eternity. -- Anton Szandor LaVey
As the profoundest philosophy of ancient Rome and Greece lighted her taper at Israel's altar, so the sweetest strains of the pagan muse were swept from harps attuned on Zion's hill. -- Edward Thomson
We limit ourselves so much. And, we limit heaven too. We think it's a place where angels just play harps. And hell has to be fire and brimstone. But that's very untrue. -- James Van Praagh

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