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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
I would like to hear Elliot Carter's Fourth String Quartet, if only to discover what a cranky prostate does to one's polyphony. — James Sellars 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
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 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
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
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
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
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
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 Third Quartet I made the instruments in pairs - Two different pairs - Violin and viola, and violin and cello. They… — Elliott Carter Copy Share Image
And the end and the beginning were always there Before the beginning and after the end. — T. S. Eliot 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
Reading to kids is to ordinary reading what jazz is to a string quartet. — Sean Wilentz 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
