Harmonicas Quotes

• Two of my favorite things are sitting on my front porch smoking a pipe of sweet hemp, and playing my Hohner harmonica.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Weed, Sweet, Marijuana

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• The harmonica is the most voice-like instrument, you can make it wail, feel happy, or cry. It's like singing the blues without words.

  Charlie Musselwhite

  Voice, Singing, Cry

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• I was messing around with the harmonica... but I was 13 before I got a real good note out of it.

  Muddy Waters

  Real, Notes

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• To me, the harmonica is like a voice.

  Charlie Musselwhite

  Voice

  "Ben Harper And Charlie Musselwhite Get Muddy". "Morning Edition" with Steve Inskeep and Renee Montagne, www.npr.org. January 31, 2013.

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• I really think that everyone should have watercolors, magnetic poetry, and a harmonica.

  Stephen Chbosky

  Thinking, Should Have, Watercolors

  Stephen Chbosky (2013). “The Perks of Being a Wallflower YA edition”, p.66, Simon and Schuster

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• I play the harmonica. The only way I can play is if I get my car going really fast, and stick it out the window.

  Steven Wright

  Funny, Humor, Play

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• The harmonica is the world's best-selling musical instrument. You're welcome.

  Bob Dylan

  Musical, World, Welcome

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I sing and play guitar and harmonica. I've been doing it for a long time.

  Harry Dean Stanton

  Guitar, Play, Long

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• The harmonica is a great instrument.

  Toots Thielemans

  Instruments

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• And my daddy could play a harmonica and also the guitar, so I guess I got a little bit from both of 'em, but I think mostly from my mother's side of the family.

  Mel Tillis

  Mother, Thinking, Guitar

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• So I went out and bought Hard Again by Muddy Waters. That was a big learning curve. I listened to that album again and again and again. James Cotton was the harmonica player on that album.

  Sonny Terry

  Player, Curves, Water

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• Our last jam session was this past Christmas. Dad played his harmonica, mom sang in English and Italian, and I played guitar. I'm so happy that we could share that musical experience for one last time.

  Tony Visconti

  Christmas, Mom, Dad

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• I've been invited to do a trio with a fantastic jazz guitarist and a harmonica player

  Karen Black

  Player, Guitar, Trios

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• So I played the acoustic guitar and harmonica and stomped my foot and I think I was right in assuming that Greenwich Village would be the best place to perform my own material and possibly get some attention, move on to making records and all.

  Steve Forbert

  Moving, Thinking, Feet

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• I play, like, 12 instruments. Guitar, piano, harmonica, African drums... I'm working on mastering the accordion.

  Lucas Grabeel

  Guitar, Play, Piano

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• Little Walter was the best harmonica player I ever heard in my life.

  James Cotton

  Player, Littles, Heard

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• I'm always trying to come up with something new and unique. I do a beatbox with a harmonica.

  Doug E. Fresh

  Unique, Always Trying, Something New

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• A minibar is a machine that makes everything expensive. When I take something out of the minibar, I always fathom that I'll go and replace it before they check it off, but they make that stuff impossible to replace. I go to the store and ask, 'Do you have coke in a glass harmonica ...Do you have individually wrapped cashews'

  Mitch Hedberg

  Funny, Humor, Glasses

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• Besides my great fashion sense? I play a mean harmonica.

  James Patterson

  Fashion, Mean, Play

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• I never imagined I'd meet Berry Gordy who told me when he first heard me sing, "You know, your singing's okay, but I like your harmonica playing better."

  Stevie Wonder

  I Like You, Singing, Berries

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I am the master! I stretch forth my hands, even to the skies! I lay my hands upon the stars, as on the crystal wheels of the harmonica. Now fast, now slow, as my soul wills, I turn the stars. I weave them into rainbows, harmonies. I feel immortality! I create immortality!

  Adam Mickiewicz

  Stars, Hands, Sky

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• I inherited depression from my mother's side of the family.

  Buzz Aldrin

  Mother, Sides

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• I'm always studying and I've been doing it for a long time now.

  Danny DeVito

  Long, Study, Long Time

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• Is dere anysing special about you? Anysing vorth saving?" Besides my fashion sense? I play a mean harmonica.

  James Patterson

  Fashion, Mean, Play

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• Andy Dufresne: 'That's the beauty of music. They can't get that from you...haven't you ever felt that way about music?' Red: 'I played a mean harmonica as a younger man. Lost interest in it though. Didn't make much sense in here.' Andy: 'Here's where it makes the most sense. You need it so you don't forget.' Red: 'Forget?' Andy: 'Forget that...there are places in this world that aren't made out of stone. That there's something inside...that they can't get to, that they can't touch. That's yours.' Red: 'What're you talking about?' Andy: 'Hope.'

  Stephen King

  Mean, Men, Talking

  "Fictional characters: Andy Dufresne and Ellis Boyd 'Red' Redding". "The Shawshank Redemption", www.imdb.com. 1994.

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