Harps Quotes - Page 5

• De hecho, soy de la opinión de que Dios, en su infinita sabiduría, no se molestó en crear dos lugares: el cielo y el infierno. Son el mismo lugar, pero el cielo es cuando consigues todo lo que quieres y te reúnes con mamá y papá y tus mejores amigos y todos os dais un abrazo y un beso y tocáis vuestras arpas. El infierno es el mismo lugar, sin fuego ni azufre, pero todos pasan de largo y no te ven. No hay nada, no hay reconocimiento. Saludas: "Soy yo, tu padre", pero eres invisible. Estás en una nube, tienes tu arpa, pero no puedes tocar con nadie porque no te ven. Eso es el infierno.

  Keith Richards

  Padre, Primavera, Besar

  "La vida". Libro de Keith Richards, 26 de octubre de 2010.

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• I love making people sing. I love group singing, sacred harp singing, choral singing, recordings of people singing sea shanties, work songs, prison songs - how people just sang to get through things.

  Matana Roberts

  Song, Sea, People

  Fuente: thequietus.com

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• You know I really don't like to think about the fact that I'm a girl in relation to the music industry. I was just a kid who wrote down thoughts to organize her brain and that turned into music, like any other writer or musician... so, I happen to be a girl. I don't consider that part of it really.. It may disappoint some feminists out there that I don't want to harp on women and men being equal.

  Lacey Mosley

  Niñas, Niños, Hombres

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• When students are first at the Kerouac School we harp on Gertrude Stein's very basic poetic insistence that words are things . Not to invalidate your experience or all the great feelings you have, I tell them. Although poetry may be good for you, it's not therapy. You're making something with words which are visceral, muscular, active, not just markers of how you feel. And we have classes studying William Blake, Ezra Pound, Charles Olson, Robert Duncan, Stein.

  Anne Waldman

  School, Class, Feelings

  Fuente: www.raintaxi.com

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• Ya sabes, la historia de siempre. Érase una vez que estaba tocando mi arpa junto a un manantial cuando un hada apareció de la nada, me entregó una Beretta modelo 92 y me dijo que disparara al conejo blanco de allí para practicar tiro al blanco.

  Haruki Murakami

  Spring, Practice, White

  Haruki Murakami (2011). “1Q84: Books 1 and 2”, p.99, Random House

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• El idioma que he aprendido estos cuarenta años, mi inglés nativo, ahora debo abandonarlo; Y ahora el uso de mi lengua no es para mí más que una viola sin cuerdas o un arpa, O como un instrumento astuto encajonado O, estando abierto, puesto en sus manos Que no sabe tocar para afinar la armonía.

  William Shakespeare

  Hands, Years, Tunes

  William Shakespeare (2013). “Second Tetralogy In Plain and Simple English: Includes Richard II, Henry IV Parts 1 and 2, and Henry V”, p.38, BookCaps Study Guides

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• The source of each accordant strain
  Lies deeper than the Poet's brain.
  First from the people's heart must spring
  The passions which he learns to sing;
  They are the wind, the harp is he,
  To voice their fitful melody,--
  The language of their varying fate,
  Their pride, grief, love, ambition, hate,--
  The talisman which holds inwrought
  The touchstone of the listener's thought;
  That penetrates each vain disguise,
  And brings his secret to his eyes.

  Bayard Taylor

  Lying, Hate, Spring

  Bayard Taylor (1866). “The Poems”, p.111

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• 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.

  Vanilla Ice

  Past, Because I Can, I Can

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• Hace años y años, cuando era niño, cuando había lobos en Gales, y pájaros del color de las enaguas de franela roja pasaban silbando por las colinas en forma de arpa, cuando cantábamos y nos revolcábamos toda la noche y todo el día en cuevas que olían como las tardes de domingo en los húmedos salones de las granjas, y perseguíamos, con mandíbulas de diáconos, a los ingleses y a los osos, antes del coche a motor, antes de la rueda, antes del caballo con cara de duquesa, cuando cabalgábamos a pelo por las colinas nevadas y felices, nevaba y nevaba.

  Dylan Thomas

  Horse, Sunday, Past

  Dylan Thomas, Ellen Raskin (2003). “A Child's Christmas in Wales”, p.10, New Directions Publishing

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• 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.

  Taraji P. Henson

  Choices, Forward Movement, Sides

  "Taraji Henson Defies Odds On And Off Screen". "Tell Me More" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. February 19, 2009.

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• Now, after these things were done, the Pharaoh and his Queen drove through the hosts of Egypt in their golden chariot, and received the homage of the hosts ere they departed northwards for Thebes. At nightfall they returned again and sat side by side at the marriage feast, and once more Tua swept her harp of ivory and gold, and sang the ancient song of him who dared much for love, and won the prize.

  H. Rider Haggard

  Love, Song, Queens

  H. Rider Haggard (2012). “Morning Star”, p.295, The Floating Press

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• Suave como el arpa de Memnon por la mañana, Para el oído interior devoto, Tocado por la luz, con advertencia celestial Tus acordes transportadores suenan. Cada hoja en cada rincón, Cada ola en cada arroyo, Cantando con una voz solemne Nos recuerda nuestra mejor elección.

  John Keble

  Morning, Voice, Light

  John Keble (1829). “The Christian year, thoughts in verse for the Sundays and holydays throughout the year [by J. Keble].”, p.52

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• Families of privilege and money would have harps in their parlors, and their cultured daughters would learn to play. It's got such a strange history. But that wasn't the context that I learned it in, so the inherent friction between that history and the more humanist folk-y history wasn't in my conscience at all.

  Joanna Newsom

  Daughter, Play, Privilege

  Interview with Andy Battaglia, www.avclub.com. October 13, 2004.

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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.

  Joanna Newsom

  Fundamentals, Instruments, Appeals

  Interview with Andy Battaglia, www.avclub.com. October 13, 2004.

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• Two touch the string,
  The harp is dumb.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Music, Two, Solitude

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). “Poems”, p.152, The Floating Press

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• 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

  Teacher, Years, Play

  Interview with Andy Battaglia, www.avclub.com. October 13, 2004.

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• On the green banks of Shannon, when Sheelah was nigh, No blithe Irish lad was so happy as I, No harp like my own could so cheerily play, And wherever I went was my poor dog Tray.

  Thomas Campbell

  Happiness, Dog, Play

  'The Harper' (1799)

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• 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'?

  Neil Gaiman

  Angel, Looks, Figures

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

  Swami Vivekananda

  Sex, Ocean, Wine

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1894, Manonmani Publishers

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• ¿Qué ocurre cuando todas las partes de la infancia están soldadas, cuando los jóvenes ya no tienen tiempo ni espacio para jugar en el jardín de su familia, volver a casa en bicicleta en la oscuridad con las estrellas y la luna iluminando su ruta, caminar por el bosque hasta el río, tumbarse de espaldas en los calurosos días th Of July en la larga hierba, u observar a los berberechos, iluminados por el sol de la mañana, como abejorros que tiemblan en los cables del arpa? ¿Y entonces?

  Richard Louv

  Naturaleza, Mañana, Estrellas

  Richard Louv (2013). "El último niño en el bosque: Saving our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder", p.81, Atlantic Books Ltd.

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• Whatever Juice this sky will pour this gaping parched old throat will drain; What time the Harper harps I'll dance: 'tis He, not I, who shall complain. Meal may be scarce and cakes be burnt, yet I weep not nor even scold: The sun is food enough for me, 't is large, and has not yet grown cold.

  Ridgely Torrence

  Gratitude, Sky, Cake

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• If my words did glow with the gold of sunshine
  And my tunes were played on the harp unstrung
  Would you hear my voice come through the music
  Would you hold it near as it were your own?

  Robert Hunter

  Sunshine, Voice, Gold

  Robert Hunter, David G. Dodd (2005). “The Complete Annotated Grateful Dead Lyrics: The Collected Lyrics of Robert Hunter and John Barlow, Lyrics to All Original Songs, with Selected Traditional and Cover Songs”, p.126, Simon and Schuster

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• 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.

  Joanna Newsom

  Song, Ideas, Voice

  Sydney Morning Herald, October 10, 2005.

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• I didn't really know a lot of the history when I was younger. I didn't realize that the harp is coded in such a specific way in musical circles. It's kind of this society instrument because of its history as a young woman's parlor instrument.

  Joanna Newsom

  Circles, Musical, Way

  Interview with Andy Battaglia, www.avclub.com. October 13, 2004.

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• O harp of life, so speedily unstrung!

  Thomas Bailey Aldrich

  Life (Vida)

  Thomas Bailey Aldrich (1907). "Los escritos de Thomas Bailey Aldrich: Poemas"

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