Harps Quotes

• 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

  Kindness, Men, Play

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• 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

  Beautiful, Wise, Lying

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• Your body is the harp of your soul and it is yours to bring forth sweet music from it or confused sounds.

  Khalil Gibran

  Sweet, Confused, Soul

  Khalil Gibran (2007). “Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces”

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• And tears are heard within the harp I touch.

  Petrarch

  Tears, Heard

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• Every hidden cell is throbbing with music and life, every fiber thrilling like harp strings.

  John Muir

  Cells, Tree, Music And Life

  John Muir (2013). “John Muir: Spiritual Writings”, p.64, Orbis Books

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

  Rumi

  Play, World, Stills

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• The willow tree plays the water like a harp.

  Ramon Gomez de la Serna

  Play, Water, Tree

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

  Igor Stravinsky

  Tunes, Tuning, Percent

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• 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

  Symphony, Soul, Sound

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• 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

  Wind, Independence, Different

  David Steindl-rast (2010). “Deeper Than Words: Living the Apostles' Creed”, p.137, Image

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• We all share in the same cosmic rhythm... For all natural laws are like the rhythm of the strings of the harp.

  Ernesto Cardenal

  Law, Natural, Share

  Ernesto Cardenal (1981). “Love”, Crossroad Publishing Company

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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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• 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

  Soul, Intellectual, What If

  'The Eolian Harp' (1796) l. 44

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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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• 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

  Science, Men, Medicine

  Francis Bacon (1859). “The Works”, p.371

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• 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

  Character, Play, Tree

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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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• 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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• I've played everything but a harp.

  Hattie McDaniel

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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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• 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 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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• 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 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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