Harps Quotes - Page 2

• 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

  Rain, Winter, Wind

  Alexander Smith (1858). “A Life-drama, and Other Poems”, p.20

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• 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

  Hands, Rainbow, Kitchen

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• 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

  Voice, Sick, Four

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• I started playing harp about fourteen years ago.

  Joanna Newsom

  Years, Years Ago, Fourteen

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Men may rise on stepping stones of their dead selves to higher things.

  Zane Grey

  Men, Self, May

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• The whole world is burdened with young fogies. Old men with ossified minds are easily dealt with. But men who look young, act young, and everlastingly harp on the fact they are young, but who nevertheless think and act with a degree of caution which would be excessive in their grandfathers, are the curses of the world.

  Robertson Davies

  Men, Thinking, Grandfather

  "The Table Talk of Samuel Marchbanks".

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• I am producing sounds that people are not used to hearing from the harp.

  Joanna Newsom

  People, Hearing, Sound

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• 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

  Music, Fake People, Practice

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• 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

  Life, Spring, Long

  Isaac Watts (1832). “An Arrangement of the Psalms, Hymns, and Spiritual Songs of the Rev. Isaac Watts”, p.64

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• 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

  Music, Clouds, Dancing

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• 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

  Time, Heart, Hands

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1861). “The poetical works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, including his translations and notes”, p.203

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• For Ryan's Daughter I used a total of eight harps, something that was, at least, weird.

  Maurice Jarre

  Daughter, Mother, Eight

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• 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

  Song, Simple, Thinking

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I've played everything but a harp.

  Hattie McDaniel

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• I can't play my songs on the smaller harp. I have a Celtic harp. I can't do the key changes.

  Joanna Newsom

  Song, Play, Keys

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

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• Me and my harp was a love affair from way back.

  Little Walter

  Way, Affair, Love Affair

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• The marvels of God are not brought forth from one's self. Rather, it is more like a chord, a sound that is played. The tone does not come out of the chord itself, but rather, through the touch of the musician. I am, of course, the lyre and harp of God's kindness.

  Hildegard of Bingen

  Kindness, Self, Musician

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• 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

  Blow, Past, Echoes

  William Schwenck Gilbert, “The Story Of Prince Agib”

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• My heart is fixed, O God, my heart is fixed: I will sing and give praise. Awake up, my glory; awake, psaltery and harp: I myself will awake early. I will praise thee, O Lord, among the people: I will sing unto thee among the nations.

  David

  Thanksgiving, Religious, Heart

  King David of Israel, “Psalm 57: I Will Cry Unto God Most High”

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• Not all who own a harp are harpers.

  Marcus Terentius Varro

  Harper

  Marcus Porcius Cato, Marcus Terentius Varro (1967). “Marcus Porcius Cato, On agriculture; Marcus Terentius Varro. On agriculture”

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• 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

  Laughter, Wine, Giving

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• 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

  Gratitude, Growing Up, Rain

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

  George R. R. Martin

  Hands, Dangerous

  George R. R. Martin (2012). “George R. R. Martin's A Game of Thrones 5-Book Boxed Set (Song of Ice and Fire Series): A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, A Feast for Crows, and and A Dance with Dragons”, p.2213, Bantam

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• 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

  Responsibility, Loss, Men

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• When it seems like the night will last forever,
  And there's nothing left to do but count the years,
  When the strings of my harp to sever,
  And stones fall from my eyes instead of tears...
  I will walk alone by the black muddy river,
  And dream me a dream of my own,
  I will walk alone by the black muddy river,
  And sing me a song of my own.

  Robert Hunter

  Dream, Song, Fall

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