Best Harmonicas Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“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!”

Feels Soul Hands Turns Stars Sky Masters Harmony Lays My Soul Immortality Wheels Rainbow Crystals Harmonicas

Author:Adam Mickiewicz

“My dad wrote a song about the people in the slides. I started playing harmonica. I was only six.”

People Song Dad Six My Dad Slides Harmonicas

Author:Rachel Trachtenburg

“I inherited depression from my mother's side of the family.”

Mother Sides Harmonicas

Author:Buzz Aldrin

“I can play the harmonica with my nose.”

I Can Play Noses Harmonicas

Author:Chord Overstreet

“Little Walter was the best harmonica player I ever heard in my life.”

Littles Player Heard Harmonicas

Author:James Cotton

“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.'”

Knows Trying Wells Play Know How Heard Solo Harmonicas

Author:John Flansburgh

“It is agreed that all sound which is the material of music is of three sorts. First is harmonica, which consists of vocal music; second is organica, which is formed from the breath; third is rhythmica, which receives its numbers from the beat of the fingers. For sound is produced either by the voice, coming through the throat; or by the breath, coming through the trumpet or tibia, for example; or by touch, as in the case of the cithara or anything else that gives a tuneful sound on being struck.”

Giving Firsts Three Sound Voice Numbers Music Cases Example Materials Music Is Beats Thirds Breaths Fingers Throat Vocal Trumpets Harmonicas Seville Vocal Music

Author:Isidore of Seville

“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.”

Men Different Shows Able Wanted Remember Letters Guitar Score One Man Remember When Keyboards Harmonicas

Author:Demetri Martin

“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.”

Sound Hours Car Miles Comedian Engines Harmonicas

Author:Steven Wright

“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.”

Ifs Giving Died Damn If I Could Harmonicas

Author:Sonny Terry

“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.”

Mind Firsts Play Wanted Song Changed Harmonicas

Author:Paul McCartney

“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.”

World Years Two Play Past Turns Opportunity Five Planets Percent Hollywood Opening Around The World Thirty Two Years Decline Location Seventies Over The Past Harmonicas

Author:Jon Stewart

“I started harmonica at the age of four, and when I was 12 I started the guitar. Then I played at school.”

Age School Four Guitar Harmonicas

Author:Peter Ham

“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."”

Knows Firsts Heard Like You Singing Okay Berries I Like You Harmonicas

Author:Stevie Wonder

“A brilliant 1989 album, Oh Mercy; some career retrospectives; and two albums of American folk songs, with just Bob Dylan and his guitar and harmonica. All that culminated in the Grammy-winning comeback album, Time Out of Mind (1997). Once again, just as Dylan seemed to be out of it, he was back at the top of his game.”

Mind Two Song Games Winning Careers Mercy Guitar Folks Albums Brilliant Bob Dylan Comeback Grammy Folk Songs Retrospective Harmonicas

Author:Bob Dylan

“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.”

Ifs Way I Can Play Humor Funny Comedy Car Window Sticks Harmonicas

Author:Steven Wright

“The harmonica is the world's best-selling musical instrument. You're welcome.”

World Instruments Musical Selling Welcome Musical Instruments Harmonicas You Re Welcome

Author:Bob Dylan

“Oh! kangaroos, sequins, chocolate sodas! / You really are beautiful! Pearls, / harmonicas, jujubes, aspirins!”

Beautiful Chocolate Pearls Soda Aspirin Kangaroos Harmonicas Sequins

Book:The Collected Poems of Frank O'Hara

Source: The Collected Poems of Frank O'Hara

“Andy Dufresne: 'That's the beauty of music. They can't get that from you...haven't you ever felt that way about music?' Red: 'I played a mean harmonica as a younger man. Lost interest in it though. Didn't make much sense in here.' Andy: 'Here's where it makes the most sense. You need it so you don't forget.' Red: 'Forget?' Andy: 'Forget that...there are places in this world that aren't made out of stone. That there's something inside...that they can't get to, that they can't touch. That's yours.' Red: 'What're you talking about?' Andy: 'Hope.'”

Men World Way Needs Mean Made Lost Felt Interest Forget Talking Havens This World Red Stones Redemption Harmonicas

Author:Stephen King

“Besides my great fashion sense? I play a mean harmonica.”

Mean Play Fashion Maximum Maximum Ride Great Fashion Harmonicas

Author:James Patterson

“Is dere anysing special about you? Anysing vorth saving?" Besides my fashion sense? I play a mean harmonica.”

Mean Play Special Fashion Saving Maximum Ride Harmonicas

Author:James Patterson

“Man, you weigh a freaking ton. What have you been eating, rocks?" * Max: "Why, is your head missing some?" o Chapter 68 p. 214 + Fang carried Max while flying after she had "a stroke or something". Gazzy: "I vill now destroy de Snickuhs bahs!" ter Borcht: "Is dere anysing special about you? Anysing vorth saving?" Fang: "Besides my fashion sense? I play a mean harmonica.”

Men Mean Play Special Rocks Fashion Missing Eating Flying Saving Chapters Strokes Max Fangs Harmonicas

Author:James Patterson

“i play a mean harmonica”

Mean Play Harmonicas

Book:Maximum Ride: Saving the World and Other Extreme Sports

Source: Maximum Ride: Saving the World and Other Extreme Sports

“I really think that everyone should have watercolors, magnetic poetry, and a harmonica.”

Thinking Should Should Have Magnetic Watercolors Harmonicas

Book:The Perks of Being a Wallflower YA edition

Source: The Perks of Being a Wallflower YA edition

“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.”

Play School Teacher Students High School Cooks Principal Daydreaming Cafeteria Janitor Harmonicas

Author:Richard Brautigan

“Two of my favorite things are sitting on my front porch smoking a pipe of sweet hemp, and playing my Hohner harmonica.”

Two Fronts Sweet Sitting My Favorite Smoking Pot Weed Marijuana Pipe Favorites Things Porch Hemp Smoking Weed Smoking A Pipe Harmonicas Front Porches Pipe Smoking Smokin Weed

Author:Abraham Lincoln

“I'm always studying and I've been doing it for a long time now.”

Long Study Long Time Harmonicas

Author:Danny DeVito

“I've been invited to do a trio with a fantastic jazz guitarist and a harmonica player”

Player Jazz Guitar Fantastic Invited Guitarist Trios Harmonicas

Author:Karen Black

“I was messing around with the harmonica... but I was 13 before I got a real good note out of it.”

Real Notes Harmonicas

Author:Muddy Waters

“A minibar is a machine that makes everything expensive. When I take something out of the minibar, I always fathom that I'll go and replace it before they check it off, but they make that stuff impossible to replace. I go to the store and ask, 'Do you have coke in a glass harmonica ...Do you have individually wrapped cashews'”

Humor Funny Asks Stuff Impossible Machines Glasses Stores Checks Expensive Coke Fathom Harmonicas Cashews

Author:Mitch Hedberg

“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.”

Kids Virtue Magic Heard Projects Mass Distance Simplicity Work Out Tunes Minors Chorus Vienna Harmonicas Requiem

Book:A Voice Crying in the Wilderness

Source: A Voice Crying in the Wilderness

“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”

Three Next Left Hours Fans Stupid Cabbage Harmonicas

Author:Thom Yorke

“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.”

Lasts Past Share Mom Dad Guitar Musical Christmas Italian Last Time Session Jam Harmonicas Musical Experience

Author:Tony Visconti

“The harmonica is a great instrument.”

Instruments Harmonicas

Author:Toots Thielemans

“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.”

Hard Bigs Water Player Albums Again And Again Curves Cotton Muddy Learning Curve Harmonicas

Author:Sonny Terry

“To me, the harmonica is like a voice.”

Voice Harmonicas

Author:Charlie Musselwhite

“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.”

Feels Voice Cry Singing Instruments Harmonicas Singing The Blues

Author:Charlie Musselwhite

“I play, like, 12 instruments. Guitar, piano, harmonica, African drums... I'm working on mastering the accordion.”

Play Instruments Guitar Piano Accordions Harmonicas

Author:Lucas Grabeel

“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.”

Thinking Littles Play Mother Bits Sides Little Bit Guitar Ems Daddy Harmonicas

Author:Mel Tillis

“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.”

Thinking Would Be Moving My Own Attention Records Feet Materials Assuming Guitar Being The Best Village Acoustics Best Place Acoustic Guitar Harmonicas Greenwich Greenwich Village

Author:Steve Forbert

“I'm a musician. I play harmonica for relaxation. A good way to relax and entertain people. An excellent way to have fun.”

People Way Play Fun Musician Excellent Having Fun Relax Relaxation Good Way Harmonicas

Author:Stan Musial

“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.”

Play Together Song Normal Guitar Folks Mum Bass Get Together Folk Songs Harmonicas

Author:Dan Auerbach

“I'm always trying to come up with something new and unique. I do a beatbox with a harmonica.”

Trying Unique Come Up Something New Always Trying Harmonicas

Author:Doug E. Fresh

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