My dad used to sing in a quartet. He loved everything: adult contemporary, anything smooth. He'd listen to the quartets. — Keri Hilson Copy Share Image
[David] Bowie's last album "Blackstar" featured him backed by a jazz quartet. — David Bowie 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
There is, it seems to us, At best, only a limited value In the knowledge derived from experience. — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
People whose sensibility is destroyed by music in trains, airports, lifts, cannot concentrate on a Beethoven Quartet. — Anonymous 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
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
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 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
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
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 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
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
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
An evening up on the Empire State roof-the strangest experience. The huge tomb in steel and glass, the ride to the 84th… — Dawn Powell Copy Share Image
[Art] would have helped us survive in the Pleistocene - in the period, say, 1.6 million years ago until fairly recently. The… — Denis Dutton 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
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
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
Beethoven's string quartets express pain itself; it is not MY pain. — Karen Armstrong 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
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
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
I've been saying for almost 20 years that I need to do a jazz project and it ought to be either big… — Al Jarreau 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 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
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
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
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