Words matter. These are the best Harp Quotes from famous people such as Maurice Jarre, Brian Skerry, Maggie Rogers, Danny Amendola, Zora Neale Hurston, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
For Ryan’s Daughter I used a total of eight harps, something that was, at least, weird.
I was the first journalist allowed on a hunting boat during harp seal season in almost 15 years. Around the late 1970s, white coat pups became the poster child for the anti-fur movement, and by the ’80s, the media was lambasting the hunters for killing them.
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.
You can learn from your mistakes but you can’t harp on the bad things, the negative things that have happened. But you definitely have to learn from them and get better and improve and progress as a football player.
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.
The one sound I think of when I think about dreaming is the harp glissando, which is this really atmospheric run up and down the scale that’s really dreamy.
Typically, I would say that I’m not defined by one loss and I’m not defined by one win. But I’d be lying if I told you I didn’t harp on the loss at Madison Square Garden.
I don’t harp on the negative because if you do, then there’s no progression. There’s no forward movement. You got to always look on the bright side of things, and we are in control. Like, you have control over the choices you make.
I flipped through a book on harp seals in the late 1970s and saw images of them swimming in emerald green pools of water surrounded by huge sheets of ice. Right then I was hooked, and I knew this was a story I wanted to do.
My first album didn’t come out until I was 27, which in pop years is late, you know. But when it came time to arrange it, I became a kid in a toy shop. I had a harp and a saxophone quartet and a symphony orchestra. I went berserk for a time.
I call myself a harp because I like the sound of the word – it is short, sharp, and abusive.
I grew up with a beautiful gold harp sitting in our living room. My older sister played it.
The beauty of recording in L.A. is that most of the musicians that are on the record live here, so it was easy to get world class artists like Rick Braun to swing by and play a little trumpet, Everette Harp on sax, guitarist Paul Jackson.
When Evanescence took time off, I bought a big concert harp and started taking lessons like I was in high school again, which was really, really fun. I felt like I was learning again.
I started playing harp about fourteen years ago.
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.
I am producing sounds that people are not used to hearing from the harp.
My brother is a great actor. Just because he doesn’t harp about his achievements, people don’t talk about his work.
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.
The thing about this league that I’ve learned is that you can’t really harp too much on your last game. The next game is the most important game and you’ve got to prepare for that.
Not to harp on too much about Ma, but it’s a misconception that she is formidable. She calls herself a patsy.
Think of what you are, you Christians. You are God’s children; you are joint heirs with Christ. The ‘many mansions’ are for you; the palms and harps of the glorified are for you. You have a share in all that Christ has and is and shall be.
Western Christians have imagined that, at the end of the day, God is going to throw the present space-time universe into a trashcan and we’ll be sitting on clouds playing harps. The ultimate future that we’re promised is much more interesting than that. It’s new heavens and a new Earth with new bodies to live in.
I’ve played everything but a harp.
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.
Then I started checking out blues albums from the library and playing the harp along with them.
This is this thing I harp on: Sometimes acting can be a self-defeating psychological enterprise if we feel like we’re desperate, if we feel like we’re beggars at the door, praying that someone will take pity on us and give us a job. It would be so much better to feel like we’re tradesmen.
I had a teacher at school who told me to take up the harp.
Heaven is on this earth. There are no angels on the clouds with twanging harps… That’s just another man’s fantasy.
I think that when you die, you continue to progress. You continue to grow in kind of an elevated state, but I don’t think you sit there and wallow around and play the harp.
I search my name on Twitter because I don’t want to miss the compliments, and I favorite the nice things people say about me so they know I saw it. People are more positive than they are negative, and I try not to harp on the negative.
We’ve got a great team sport, but we harp on about individuals. It’s a bit contradictory.
And tears are heard within the harp I touch.
I can produce any instrument, any sound that I can imagine; it may be percussive to the audience, but in my mind it may be a piano, a melody, or a tuba, or a harp, or a harmonica. My mission is to allow people to hear the dance in its purity and up against any other type of sound or music.
Some composers end up writing for the guitar as they would write piano music or, more often, harp music. It isn’t the same.
I can play anything – piano, drums, guitar, harp – I can even play a trumpet through another trumpet.
Being a female guitar player back in school wasn’t great, and I had to change schools so many times. The male drummers and bass players thought it was cool, but male guitar players said, ‘It’s a guy’s thing. You should be doing something else, like playing the harp.’
I live again the days and evenings of my long career. I dream at night of operas and concerts in which I have had my share of success. Now like the old Irish minstrel, I have hung up my harp because my songs are all sung.
I did it all, singing, the harp, piano. But I was so shy, I’d wake up at six to practice piano because I didn’t want anyone to hear me play. But then I’d do a big show in school where everyone would see me, and that was actually alright.
I can’t play my songs on the smaller harp. I have a Celtic harp. I can’t do the key changes.
It’s defeatist to harp on what might have been, and yet, it’s hard to resist considering what might have been.
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.
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.
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.