Top 167 Harp Quotes & Sayings

Nature is an aeolian harp, a musical instrument whose tones are the re-echo of higher strings within us.

I started playing harp about fourteen years ago.

Your body is the harp of the soul.

I call myself a harp because I like the sound of the word - it is short, sharp, and abusive.

The willow tree plays the water like a harp.

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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.

Not all who own a harp are harpers.

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.

There are certain sounds that have a loaded past. Like the sound of a harp, if you go back to old movies, represents a dream sequence; it transports you there.

The harp is an insipid instrument--no good for dancing, feasting, or marching, only for sitting primly in a parlor or on a cloud.

I've played everything but a harp.

Last year the [harp seal] pup mortality rate was 100 percent in parts of the Gulf of St. Lawrence.

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.

In winter, when the dismal rain Comes down in slanting lines, And Wind, that grand old harper, smote His thunder-harp of pines.

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

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'?

Free thyself from the mighty attraction- The maddening wine of love, the charm of sex. Break the harp! Forward, with the ocean's cry!. . .

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

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

Then I started checking out blues albums from the library and playing the harp along with them.

(As a boy) I was listening to Sonny Boy Williamson's (I) records and I would close my eyes and I could visualize myself playing the harp.

I've played everything but the harp.

He who through virtue and spiritual knowledge has brought his body into harmony with his soul has become a harp, a flute and a temple of God. He has become a harp by preserving the harmony of the virtues; a flute by receiving the inspiration of the Spirit through divine contemplation; and a temple by becoming a dwelling place of the Logos through the purity of his intellect.

Whatever we learn to do, we learn by actually doing it; men come to be builders, for instance, by building, and harp players by playing the harp. In the same way, by doing just acts we come to be just; by doing self-controlled acts, we come to be self-controlled ; and by doing brave acts, we become brave.

People become house builders through building houses, harp players through playing the harp. We grow to be just by doing things which are just.

I grew up with a beautiful gold harp sitting in our living room. My older sister played it.

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

And tears are heard within the harp I touch.

Sweet is the day of sacred rest; No mortal cares shall seize my breast; O may my heart in tune be found Like David's harp of solemn sound.

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

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

Kindness is the music of Good Will to men, and on this harp the smallest fingers may play heaven's sweetest tunes on earth.

We've got a great team sport, but we harp on about individuals. It's a bit contradictory.

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

The living thing is not the clay molded by the potter, nor the harp played upon by the musician. It is the clay modeling itself.

A writer is a strange instrument of our species, a harp of sorts, fine-tuned to the dark contradictions of life.

The perfection of conversation is not to play a regular sonata, but, like the AEolian harp, to await the inspiration of the passing breeze.

But my body was like a harp and her words and gestures were like fingers running upon the wires.

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.

Not to harp on too much about Ma, but it's a misconception that she is formidable. She calls herself a patsy.

Each class preaches the importance of those virtues it need not exercise. The rich harp on the value of thrift, the idle grow eloquent over the dignity of labor.

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

It's totally different. I usually don't tell people about the Pleased if they know me from the harp. And if they are there to see the Pleased, I usually don't tell them about the harp. I am nervous that these people will expect something similar.

My voice in combination with the harp - which, by the way, I use because I've played it my entire life, not to make some statement about the harp - somehow has ... coloured people's interpretations of the music and projected an idea of childlike or fairytale quality or innocence. Which sometimes prevents people from listening to the songs the way I would like them to be listened to.

Fro and to in my dreams to you To the haunting tune of the harp For the price I paid when you died that day I paid that day with my heart Fro and to in my dreams to you With the breaking of my heart Ne'er more again will I sing this song Ne'er more will I hear the harp.

The harp sounds at each passing breeze, but that does not mean the tune is masterfully played.

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

You can't worry about what people say, but... People always harp on athletes being selfish individualists.

Two touch the string, The harp is dumb.

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

I play as many different things - piano, sax and harp parts - as I can at once. Whatever I can fit, whenever I need to.

I do play a lot of instruments. I started with the harp when I was young and then sort of moved to guitar and piano.

I had a teacher at school who told me to take up the harp.

We must get away from the traditional idea that the saints in Heaven have one eternal holiday; that they have nothing to occupy them save playing a harp and incessantly singing.

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

O harp of life, so speedily unstrung!

I hold it truth, with him who sings To one clear harp in divers tones, That men may rise on stepping-stones Of their dead selves to higher things.

Glorious is the Voice of Man, and sweet is the music of the harp.

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