Quotes of: Harps Keyword

The strings of the harp must be not too tight, and not too slack.

Myanmar

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

Joanna Newsom

So little, once it has changed, changes back.

The Grass Harp, Including A Tree of Night and Other Stories

Dreams are the mind of the soul and the secret truth about us.

The Grass Harp, Including A Tree of Night and Other Stories

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.

Joanna Newsom

If you can hear time passing it makes the day last longer. I've come to appreciate a long day.

The Grass Harp, Including A Tree of Night and Other Stories

I've played everything but a harp.

Hattie McDaniel

Seamus Finnigan: Eye of rabbit, harp string hum, turn this water into rum. [he checks the goblet, then tries again] Seamus Finnigan: Eye of rabbit, harp string hum... Harry: What's Seamus trying to do to that glass of water? Ron: Turn it to rum. Actu...

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

And tears are heard within the harp I touch.

Petrarch

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

Maurice Jarre

I started playing harp about fourteen years ago.

Joanna Newsom

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

A Storm of Swords

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

John Goodman

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

Igor Stravinsky

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

Joanna Newsom

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

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

Christopher Reeve

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

John Lydon

Grace to me is a little bit of extra help when you're feeling stuck or doomed or, probably, hopefully, out of good ideas on how to save yourself, and how to salvage the situation or the friendship or the whatever it is,” Anne Lamott once told me. �...

Sin Boldly: A Field Guide for Grace

...I take the view that God, in his infinite wisdom, didn't bother to spring for two joints - heaven and hell. They're the same place, but heaven is when you get everything you want and you meet Mommy and Daddy and your best friends and you all have ...

LIFE

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

How Green Was My Valley