Harps Quotes

Harps Quote of the day

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.

And the wind plays on those great sonorous harps, the shrouds and masts of ships.

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.

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

Every element has a sound, an original sound from the order of God; all those sounds unite like the harmony from harps and zithers.

I've played everything but a harp.

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.

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.

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

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.

Hills tell old stories. Cliffs are poets with harps.

Your body is the harp of the soul.

Heaven is on this earth. There are no angels on the clouds with twanging harps... That's just another man's fantasy.

There are vast realms of consciousness still undreamed of -vast ranges of experience, like humming of unseen harps, we know nothing of, within us.

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

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

And tears are heard within the harp I touch.

A happy union with wife and child is like the music of lutes and harps.

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

I started playing harp about fourteen years ago.

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

Not all who own a harp are harpers.

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

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

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.

I've played everything but the harp.

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.

It's interesting when something new comes along, a band of dwarfs playing electronic harps or something, but I'm not searching.

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.

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'?

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.

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

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.

O harp of life, so speedily unstrung!

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.

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.