Top 51 Quotes About Harmonica
#1. Love Me Do, the first song we recorded, John was supposed to sing the lead, but they changed their minds and asked me to sing lead because they wanted John to play harmonica.
Paul McCartney
#2. The rest of the band were basically friends, So it was me following them around and begging them to let me be in their band for two or three years. And they finally let me in on the harmonica, actually, and then the keyboards, and finally the guitar.
Jonny Greenwood
#3. But I really think that everyone should have watercolors, magnetic poetry, and a harmonica. My
Stephen Chbosky
#4. The Harmonica is the world's best-selling musical instrument. You're welcome.
Bob Dylan
#5. Simplicity is always a virtue. One kid on a riverbank working out a Stephen Foster tune on his new harmonica heard from the correct esthetic distance projects more magic and power than the entire Vienna Philharmonic and Chorus laboring (once again) through the Mozart Requiem or Bach's B Minor Mass.
Edward Abbey
#6. I am the master! I stretch forth my hands, even to the skies! I lay my hands upon the stars, as on the crystal wheels of the harmonica. Now fast, now slow, as my soul wills, I turn the stars. I weave them into rainbows, harmonies. I feel immortality! I create immortality!
Adam Mickiewicz
#7. I have already been loved," said Edward. "I have been loved by a girl named Abilene. I have been loved by a fisherman and his wife and a hobo and his dog. I have been loved by a boy who played the harmonica and by a girl who died. Don't talk to me about love," he said. "I have known love.
Kate DiCamillo
#8. I worked at an old folks' home once in Harlem, and I was an activities volunteer. I used to do all these plays with the old people. I did 'The Wizard of Oz;' it was adapted. There was a guy there who played the harmonica, so we had an overture, and The Wizard was 96.
Tony Danza
#9. Sir, I cannot sing. I have no formal training. I do not read music. And I know this is a church - but I play a mean harmonica.
Matt Weber
#10. My mum's family would all get together, with guitars, harmonica, mandolins and upright bass and play old blues and folk songs. That was normal to me.
Dan Auerbach
#11. So I played the acoustic guitar and harmonica and stomped my foot and I think I was right in assuming that Greenwich Village would be the best place to perform my own material and possibly get some attention, move on to making records and all.
Steve Forbert
#12. I was messing around with the harmonica ... but I was 13 before I got a real good note out of it.
Muddy Waters
#13. Unbecoming or not, I dare say that if a harmonica chases away a suitor, he was no suitor at all in the first place.
Sarah Price
#14. And if they come in force, show them what the Feegles can dae!" Daft Wullie said, "I can play the harmonica." Rob Anybody sighed. "Aye, weel, I suppose that puts the willies up me, so wud likely keep them awa'.
Terry Pratchett
#15. Our last jam session was this past Christmas. Dad played his harmonica, mom sang in English and Italian, and I played guitar. I'm so happy that we could share that musical experience for one last time.
Tony Visconti
#16. I put a new engine in my car, but forgot to take the old one out. Now my car goes 500 miles per hour. The harmonica sounds amazing.
Steven Wright
#17. I've been invited to do a trio with a fantastic jazz guitarist and a harmonica player.
Karen Black
#18. I really think that everyone should have watercolors, magnetic poetry, and a harmonica.
Stephen Chbosky
#19. Little Walter was the best harmonica player I ever heard in my life.
James Cotton
#20. So, you never can tell what will happen when you learn to play the harmonica.
Robert McCloskey
#21. I'm a musician. I play harmonica for relaxation. A good way to relax and entertain people. An excellent way to have fun.
Stan Musial
#22. I'm always trying to come up with something new and unique. I do a beatbox with a harmonica.
Doug E. Fresh
#23. I play the harmonica. The only way I can play is if I get my car going really fast, and stick it out the window.
Steven Wright
#24. I never imagined I'd meet Berry Gordy who told me when he first heard me sing, "You know, your singing's okay, but I like your harmonica playing better."
Stevie Wonder
#25. It made a sound," Carl says. "Can you describe it?" "Ever put a harmonica in a blender?" "No." "Then no, I can't describe it," he says.
Anonymous
#26. I started harmonica at the age of four, and when I was 12 I started the guitar. Then I played at school.
Peter Ham
#27. I play, like, 12 instruments. Guitar, piano, harmonica, African drums ... I'm working on mastering the accordion.
Lucas Grabeel
#28. I sing and play guitar and harmonica. I've been doing it for a long time.
Harry Dean Stanton
#29. My father was in a dance band, and I wanted to do what he did, play the saxophone, but I couldn't blow a note, so he suggested the guitar. Chromatic harmonica was actually my first instrument, and I got very good at it - not quite Stevie Wonder, but very good.
Pete Townshend
#30. I picked up a harmonica and taught myself.
Sam Barry
#31. I got to tell you, that if it weren't for that harmonica music, i might of just packed up and gone home, but it made me feel so good, I can hardly describe it. Sort of like my whole body is the harmonica and the music give me goosebumps when I play it.
Winston Groom
#32. In them days I just as soon died
except for my harmonica. It was like a friend who didn't give a damn if I could see or not.
Sonny Terry
#35. As tae the rest o' ye, tak guard around yon stones. And if they come in force, show them what the Feegles can dae!"
Daft Wullie said, "I can play the harmonica.
Terry Pratchett
#37. Have you heard Alanis Morisette trying to play the harmonica? She doesn't know how to play the harmonica. Well guess what, Alanis, I INVENTED the 'don't-know-how-to-play-harmonica-harmonica-solo.'
John Flansburgh
#38. I'm not saying my fans are stupid, but I once left a cabbage onstage next to a harmonica and nobody noticed for three hours
Thom Yorke
#39. Well, I did a harmonica instruction tape for Homespun tapes.
John Sebastian
#41. Aoife, in her dreams, makes a noise like a friendless harmonica.
David Mitchell
#42. I daydream about a high school where everybody plays the harmonica: the students, the teachers, the principal, the janitor and the cook in the cafeteria.
Richard Brautigan
#43. And my daddy could play a harmonica and also the guitar, so I guess I got a little bit from both of 'em, but I think mostly from my mother's side of the family.
Mel Tillis
#44. Two of my favorite things are sitting on my front porch smoking a pipe of sweet hemp, and playing my Hohner harmonica.
Abraham Lincoln
#45. Planet Hollywood has shrunk from seventy-five locations around the world to just over thirty-five over the past two years. No new Planet Hollywoods are opening, which in turn has caused a 100 percent decline in opportunities for Bruce Willis to play the harmonica.
Jon Stewart
#46. So I went out and bought Hard Again by Muddy Waters. That was a big learning curve. I listened to that album again and again and again. James Cotton was the harmonica player on that album.
Sonny Terry
#47. I was regarded by my parents as having little musical talent other than a thin, nasal soprano voice. I was forbidden to touch my father's clarinets or saxophones, just my harmonica.
Pete Townshend
#48. My dad wrote a song about the people in the slides. I started playing harmonica. I was only six.
Rachel Trachtenburg
#49. The harmonica is the most voice-like instrument, you can make it wail, feel happy, or cry. It's like singing the blues without words.
Charlie Musselwhite
#50. I just started doing this one-man show, and I wanted to be able to score it, so I bought a guitar, and got a keyboard and got a harmonica. I remember when I started that I didn't understand why a harmonica had different letters on them.
Demetri Martin
#51. Hey, you know something people?
I'm not black
But there's a whole lots a times
I wish I could say I'm not white
Frank Zappa
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