Harpists spend 90 percent of their lives tuning their harps and 10 percent playing out of tune.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
In the hierarchy of instruments, if you're a harpist, you're considered someone with a brain much more than if you're a singer.
I am producing sounds that people are not used to hearing from the harp.
I grew up with a beautiful gold harp sitting in our living room. My older sister played it.
I started playing harp about fourteen years ago.
When you play the 12-string guitar, you spend half your life tuning the instrument and the other half playing it out of tune.
I was the same kind of father as I was a harpist - I played by ear.
For Ryan's Daughter I used a total of eight harps, something that was, at least, weird.
I call myself a harp because I like the sound of the word - it is short, sharp, and abusive.
The collective conscience of a hundred musicians is no light burden. Think for a moment of what it would mean to a pianist if by some miracle every key of his instrument should suddenly become a living thing.
I've played everything but a harp.