Playing Harp Quotes

#1. I didn't sing for years and years, but I started playing harp when I was maybe 9 or 10. I had actually wanted to play for years leading up to that, but no teacher in our little town would take me on as a student, because I was too young.

Joanna Newsom

#2. I started playing harp about fourteen years ago.

Joanna Newsom

#3. 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.

Herbert Lockyer

#4. It was a girl playing a harp, like in an orchestra. It was in this tree at our campsite. And since it was breezy weather that weekend, the girl's arms were almost always turning.

Paul Fleischman

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

John Goodman

#6. (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.

Junior Wells

#7. I'd rather be a superhero in hell, kicking all kinds of demon ass, than an angel in heaven, wafting around with a beatific smile on my face, playing a pansy harp all day. Dude, give me drums and bang cymbals! I like the crash and bang.

Karen Marie Moning

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

Aristotle.

#9. A lot of people think Heaven is sitting around on a cloud playing a harp all day, doing nothing except being holy - and they don't find it very appealing! Thank God that is not what Heaven is like!

David Berg

#10. Where does music go when it's not playing? - she asked herself. And disarmed she would answer: May they make a harp out of my nerves when I die.

Clarice Lispector

#11. Olympus is still a patriarchy. Zeus heads his royal household as jealously as Jehovah rules his harem of dull, harp-playing angels. Both are templates for order on earth, don't you think?

Cliff James

#12. You know, the usual story. Once upon a time I was playing my harp by a spring when a fairy appeared out of nowhere, handed me a Beretta Model 92, and told me to shoot the white rabbit over there for target practice.

Haruki Murakami

#13. King David is a wonderful example of a well-balanced man who was a warrior fighting battles on some days and a gentle, harp-playing composer on other days.

Vicki Courtney

#14. A girl wearing a wicker chicken and playing the harp bopped me with a book about buns and then stuffed me under a piano.

Gail Carriger