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Quotes About Harpsichord

Gee, You're so Beautiful That It's Starting to Rain Oh, Marcia, I want your long blonde beauty to be taught in high school, so kids will learn that God lives like music in the skin and sounds like a sunshine harpsicord. I want high school report cards to look like this: Playing with Gentle Glass Things A Computer Magic A Writing Letters to Those You Love A Finding out about Fish A Marcia's Long Blonde Beauty A+!
~ Richard Brautigan
His eyes were like the shoelaces of a harpsichord.
~ Richard Brautigan
Oh, well,' Mrs. Zender continued, 'Mother always said that Mr. Zender had other talents. He was good looking, and I think Mother put looking good right up there with the harpsichord, an instrument that has limited performance time and requires a great deal of maintenance.
~ E.L. Konigsburg
And so Discovery drove on toward Saturn, as often as not pulsating with the cool music of the harpsichord, the frozen thoughts of a brain that had been dust for twice a hundred years.
~ Arthur C. Clarke
And so Discovery drove on toward Saturn, as often as not pulsating with the cool music of the harpsichord, the frozen thoughts of a brain that had been dust for twice a hundred years.
~ Arthur C. Clarke
Your friend Mr. Tulip would perhaps like part of your payment to be the harpsichord? said the chair. It's not a --ing harpsichord, it's a --ing virginal, growled Mr. Tulip. One --ing string to a note instead of two! So called because it was an instrument for --ing young ladies! My word, was it? said one of the chairs. I thought it was just of sort of early piano!
~ Terry Pratchett
Someday we may have as many followers as the harpsichord.
~ Eddie Condon
The devoted sister had solemn thoughts of thrumming on its chords for Clifford's benefit, and accompanying the performance with her voice. Poor Clifford! Poor Hepzibah! Poor harpsichord!
~ Nathaniel Hawthorne
Arnie Kott owned the only harpsichord on Mars. However, it was out of tune, and he could find no one to service it. No matter which way you cut it, there were no harpsichord tuners on Mars.
~ Philip K Dick