There is, it seems to us, At best, only a limited value In the knowledge derived from experience. — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
As an improviser I'm now pretty comfortable with trios, so I'm thinking of working up to quartets. — Fred Frith Copy Share Image
Beethoven's last quartets were written by a deaf man and should only be listened to by a deaf man. — Thomas Beecham Copy Share Image
Time past and time future allow but a little consciousness. To be conscious is not to be in time. — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
The question who ought to be boss is like who ought to be the tenor in the quartet? Obviously, the man who… — Henry Ford Copy Share Image
Not less of love, but expanding Of love beyond desire, and so liberation From the Future as well as the past. — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
There is no bad day that cant be overcome by listening to a barbershop quartet. This is just truth, plain and simple. — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
I tried to resist his overtures, but he plied me with symphonies, quartets, chamber music, and cantatas. — S. J. Perelman Copy Share Image
And all shall be well and/ All manner of thing shall be well/ By the purification of the motive/ In the ground… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
The only reason is that I hadn't seen The Modern Jazz Quartet perform live and a live performance is often where the… — Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Copy Share Image
I am touring in Europe. I am putting together a trio and a quartet. I am playing solo concerts with my symphonic… — Miroslav Vitous Copy Share Image
History may be servitude. History may be freedom. See, now they vanish. The faces and places, with the self which, as it… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
Music just runs in my family. My dad and my uncles are a gospel quartet, Latimore Brothers. They've been doing their thing… — Jacob Latimore Copy Share Image
The hint half guessed, the gift half understood, is incarnation. Here the impossible union of spheres of existence is actual. Here the… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
My wife and I just started listening to the late Beethoven Quartets together, an activity I recommend for all married couples, but… — Clive James Copy Share Image
Solo dancing does not exist: the dancer dances with the floor: add another dancer and you have a quartet: each dance with… — Steve Paxton Copy Share Image
I listen to music when I write. I need the musical background. Classical music. I'm behind the times. I'm still with Baroque… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
In spite of all the refinements of civilization that conspired to make art--the dizzying perfection of the string quartet or the sprawling… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
A Beethoven string-quartet is truly, as some one has said, a scraping of horses' tails on cats' bowels, and may be exhaustively… — William James Copy Share Image
Why should a novelist not also be a historian? To force unnatural divisions within the English language is to work against its… — Peter Ackroyd Copy Share Image
The great thing about string quartets is the players are kind of like family. They work really well as a unit, so… — Terry Riley Copy Share Image
For most of us, there is only the unattended Moment, the moment in and out of time, The distraction fit, lost in… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
I have learned a lot from jazz. I compare good acting to jazz music. The more you study and prepare as an… — Nat Wolff Copy Share Image
Instead of the metaphor of scales in balance, I prefer the idea of a jazz quartet: you're trying to make music that… — Stewart D. Friedman Copy Share Image
Just as with the quartet, each part of a painting is telling a different story. — Guido Molinari Copy Share Image
There was one thing Beethoven didn't do. When one of his string quartets was played, you can believe the second violin wasn't… — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
Part of me is probably more conservative than people realise. I like my old string quartets, I don't like music that's trippy… — Bjork Copy Share Image
The pieces that have survived, the ones that we all love, were not all popular in their time. Just look at Beethoven's… — David Finckel Copy Share Image
You can play Bach on the piano, a symphony orchestra or a quartet of saxophones, but let's stop this silly, childish business… — Paul McCreesh Copy Share Image
The Vores Third Quartet is a terrific piece that brings disparate components into harmony. . . it's celebratory, imaginative, touching, and fun. — Richard Dyer Copy Share Image
And over the last ten years, after my work with the Brodsky Quartet, I had the opportunity to write arrangements for chamber… — Elvis Costello Copy Share Image
Time present and time past Are both perhaps present in time future, And time future contained in time past. If all time… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
My dad graduated seminary there, and so did (sounds like) Mark Kimball's grandfather. They sang in a quartet together, my dad and… — Al Jarreau Copy Share Image
We used to get on planes, and they'd ask who we were, and we'd say, 'The Dave Brubeck Quartet', and they'd say,… — Paul Desmond Copy Share Image
I suppose subconsciously I was thinking in terms of having the scale of it matching the scale of the images. Hence the… — Jonny Greenwood Copy Share Image
One is that you have to take time, lots of time, to let an idea grow from within. The second is that… — Yo-Yo Ma Copy Share Image
I cannot work and listen to Wagner at the same time, nor Mahler, nor Beethoven's late quartets. I enjoy listening to Chopin's… — I. M. Pei Copy Share Image
My first strong musical memory is of the Villa-Lobos Sixth Quartet which my parents were rehearsing. I remember that it reminded me… — Leonard Slatkin Copy Share Image
When I was drawing this, I thought I’d put together Sailor Saturn and Sailor Chibi-Moon in a pair. Then I followed it… — Naoko Takeuchi Copy Share Image
In his late quartets, Beethoven introduces an element that shouldn't be there, that should be left for meditation, though I love them.… — John Tavener Copy Share Image
