Here, we’ve compiled a list of the best Harmonica Quotes from famous authors such as Jonny Greenwood, Tim Kaine, John Sebastian, Chord Overstreet, Sonny Terry. Let’s look at these pieces of wisdom. We definitely have something to learn from them!
1
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.
2
In politics, you’ve got to have a fallback in our line of work because your career can be over in an instant. Not that I would make much money playing a harmonica.
3
Well, I did a harmonica instruction tape for Homespun tapes.
4
I play the piano, drums, little bit of bass, guitar. I can play harmonica, a little bit of the ukulele. Pretty much anything that’s a strumming, string type thing.
5
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.
6
No I don’t play bluegrass harmonica or anything like that. I don’t listen to country or bluegrass records.
7
I’m always trying to come up with something new and unique. I do a beatbox with a harmonica.
8
I can produce any instrument, any sound that I can imagine; it may be percussive to the audience, but in my mind it may be a piano, a melody, or a tuba, or a harp, or a harmonica. My mission is to allow people to hear the dance in its purity and up against any other type of sound or music.
9
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.
10
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.
11
I was messing around with the harmonica… but I was 13 before I got a real good note out of it.
12
I sing and play guitar and harmonica. I’ve been doing it for a long time.
13
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.
14
Music is like a conversation. One person says one thing that speaks with a harmonica, with a bass, with a drum. They’re all conversating, and we’re just trying to find a way to make conversation rather than blah, blah, blah. But it’s not really so hard a thing to do if you know the way to approach it.
15
I can play the harmonica with my nose.
16
I worked with Jack Nitzsche for ‘One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest,’ and we’d booked a symphony orchestra. He dismissed them and came with a little man who poured water into glasses of different sizes to make a glass harmonica. And most of the music for the film was that – with some Indian flutes and some drums.
17
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.
18
I’ve been invited to do a trio with a fantastic jazz guitarist and a harmonica player.
