Quartets Quotes · Page 2

I tried to resist his overtures, but he plied me with symphonies, quartets, chamber music, and cantatas.

— S. J. Perelman

Time past and time future allow but a little consciousness. To be conscious is not to be in time.

— T. S. Eliot

And the end and the beginning were always there Before the beginning and after the end.

— T. S. Eliot

As an improviser I'm now pretty comfortable with trios, so I'm thinking of working up to quartets.

— Fred Frith

[David] Bowie's last album "Blackstar" featured him backed by a jazz quartet.

— David Bowie

There is, it seems to us, At best, only a limited value In the knowledge derived from experience.

— T. S. Eliot

The Detroit String Quartet played Brahms last night. Brahms lost.

— Bennett Cerf

My dad used to sing in a quartet. He loved everything: adult contemporary, anything smooth. He'd listen to the quartets.

— Keri Hilson

My family was very encouraging, and both of my grandparents were both beautiful singers. My grandmother was a coloratura soprano, and my…

— Clare Bowen

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

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

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

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

Once a month I play with a chamber music quartet. I play almost no solo music anymore because I so enjoy the…

— Condoleezza Rice

I got a chance to listen to and watch Thelonious Monk and his quartet play two shows a night, for six weeks.…

— Chick Corea

At the still point of the turning world. Neither flesh nor fleshless; Neither from nor towards; at the still point, there the…

— T. S. Eliot

Whether a listener absorbs this music or rebels against it is at least partly a matter of how the performers put it…

— Allan Kozinn

“It was the quartets of Beethoven (numbers 12,13,14, and 15) which over fifty years, created and expanded the the audience of listeners…

— Marcel Proust

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

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

Many consider that Shostakovich is the greatest 20th-century composer. In his 15 symphonies, 15 quartets, and in other works he demonstrated mastery…

— Dmitri Shostakovich

I have always loved jazz music and as a teen growing up in New York City and then later on as an…

— Tony Bennett

After two hours it stopped raining and in the same moment the spell broke, which Peroquet and the Admiral and Captain Jumeau…

— Susanna Clarke

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

Beethoven's last quartets were written by a deaf man and should only be listened to by a deaf man.

— Thomas Beecham

A good quartet is like a good conversation among friends interacting to each other's ideas.

— Stan Getz

Reading to kids is to ordinary reading what jazz is to a string quartet.

— Sean Wilentz

Industry, economy, honesty and kindness form a quartet of virtue that will never be improved upon.

— Jamie Oliver

A people without history Is not redeemed from time, for history is a pattern Of timeless moments.

— T. S. Eliot

In order to possess what you do not possess, you must go by the way of dispossession.

— T. S. Eliot

I know of musicians who have played together for decades who hate each other. The Modern Jazz Quartet for one.

— Gary Burton

There are no more barbershop quartets wearing boaters, even though I still like them. Life goes on.

— Tina Weymouth

Love is the unfamiliar Name Behind the hands that wove The intolerable shirt of flame Which human power cannot remove.

— T. S. Eliot

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

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

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

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

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

The Vores Third Quartet is a terrific piece that brings disparate components into harmony. . . it's celebratory, imaginative, touching, and fun.

— Richard Dyer

And over the last ten years, after my work with the Brodsky Quartet, I had the opportunity to write arrangements for chamber…

— Elvis Costello