Beethoven's string quartets express pain itself; it is not MY pain. — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
I would say that Beethoven's late string quartets are the nearest to God that we'll ever get. — Sheila Hancock 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
Reading to kids is to ordinary reading what jazz is to a string quartet. — Sean Wilentz 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
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
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
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
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
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 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
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
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
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
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
After two hours it stopped raining and in the same moment the spell broke, which Peroquet and the Admiral and Captain Jumeau… — Susanna Clarke 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
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
