When I was seven years old, I was leading a quartet and trio, and that really laid the groundwork for me as… — Anne Akiko Meyers Copy Share Image
“Some people write string quartets, some grow lettuce and tomatoes. There have to be a few who build railroad stations,” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Every small town has its dramatic group, its barber-shop quartet, every home has music in one form or another. — Kate Smith Copy Share Image
Beethoven's string quartets express pain itself; it is not MY pain. — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
The only hope, or else despair Lies in the choice of pyre or pyre - To be redeemed from fire by fire. — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
To arrive where you are, to get from where you are not / You must go by a way wherein there is… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
I got a chance to listen to and watch Thelonious Monk and his quartet play two shows a night, for six weeks.… — Chick Corea Copy Share Image
I realized very early that I was never going to make by living by writing string quartets. But I wanted to write… — Richard Rodney Bennett Copy Share Image
Desire itself is movement Not in itself desirable; Love is itself unmoving, Only the cause and end of movement, Timeless, and undesiring… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
My family was very encouraging, and both of my grandparents were both beautiful singers. My grandmother was a coloratura soprano, and my… — Clare Bowen Copy Share Image
The Third Quartet I made the instruments in pairs - Two different pairs - Violin and viola, and violin and cello. They… — Elliott Carter Copy Share Image
A noble space, unlike any other of our time, for it is both strong and delicate. It seems to call at once… — Paul Goldberger Copy Share Image
I grew up listening to the quartets and I loved that so much that I wanted to see if I could make… — Bill Gaither Copy Share Image
Growing up in the Bay Area, I played early on with these quartet groups who set guidelines for me. I remember the… — Raphael Saadiq Copy Share Image
These stories seem at times to be stories of a long-lost world when the city of New York was still filled with… — John Cheever Copy Share Image
Whether a listener absorbs this music or rebels against it is at least partly a matter of how the performers put it… — Allan Kozinn Copy Share Image
And since I’m marrying into the Quartet, I have certain privileges and duties. If you’re sleeping with Laurel—” “I’m not sleeping with… — Nora Roberts Copy Share Image
We shall not cease from exploration And the end of all our exploring Will be to arrive where we started And know… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
Behind the cotton wool is hidden a pattern; that we—I mean all human beings—are connected with this; that the whole world is… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
On one hand you have a string quartet, which is not a symphony. On the other hand is you have me sampling… — DJ Spooky Copy Share Image
Cold Mountain Buddhas Han Shan Wait without thought, for you are not ready for thought: So the darkness shall be the light,… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
I don't know that I make a big distinction between the big pieces and the little pieces, because I don't experience them… — Philip Glass Copy Share Image
I think that both Russia and other international actors, including those who are more actively engaged in the resolution of the Ukrainian… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
Reading to kids is to ordinary reading what jazz is to a string quartet. — Sean Wilentz Copy Share Image
I know of musicians who have played together for decades who hate each other. The Modern Jazz Quartet for one. — Gary Burton Copy Share Image
Love is the unfamiliar Name Behind the hands that wove The intolerable shirt of flame Which human power cannot remove. — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
There are no more barbershop quartets wearing boaters, even though I still like them. Life goes on. — Tina Weymouth Copy Share Image
In order to possess what you do not possess, you must go by the way of dispossession. — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
A people without history Is not redeemed from time, for history is a pattern Of timeless moments. — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
Industry, economy, honesty and kindness form a quartet of virtue that will never be improved upon. — Jamie Oliver Copy Share Image
