Quartet Quotes

47 quotes by 43 authors

The Detroit String Quartet played Brahms last night. Brahms lost. — Bennett Cerf
A world without tomatoes is like a string quartet without violins. — Laurie Colwin
Industry, economy, honesty and kindness form a quartet of virtue that will never be improved upon. — Jamie Oliver
I love working with the quartet. I have more freedom and flexibility. — Boz Scaggs
The most perfect expression of human behavior is a string quartet. — Jeffrey Tate
I owe very, very much to Mozart; and if one studies, for instance, the way in which I write for string quartet, then one cannot… — Arnold Schoenberg
You can play Bach on the piano, a symphony orchestra or a quartet of saxophones, but let's stop this silly, childish business of knit your… — Paul McCreesh
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
Reading to kids is to ordinary reading what jazz is to a string quartet. — Sean Wilentz
Solo dancing does not exist: the dancer dances with the floor: add another dancer and you have a quartet: each dance with the other and… — Steve Paxton
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, 'Who?' In later… — Paul Desmond
I suppose subconsciously I was thinking in terms of having the scale of it matching the scale of the images. Hence the sort of string… — Jonny Greenwood
An evening up on the Empire State roof-the strangest experience. The huge tomb in steel and glass, the ride to the 84th floor and there,… — Dawn Powell
Growing up in the Bay Area, I played early on with these quartet groups who set guidelines for me. I remember the guys would all… — Raphael Saadiq
There is no bad day that canâ€™t be overcome by listening to a barbershop quartet. This is just truth, plain and simple. — Aldous Huxley
I know of musicians who have played together for decades who hate each other. The Modern Jazz Quartet for one. — Gary Burton
A Beethoven string-quartet is truly, as some one has said, a scraping of horses' tails on cats' bowels, and may be exhaustively described in such… — William James
How could a New Yorker possibly take something called the Hollywood String Quartet seriously? — Leonard Slatkin
Every small town has its dramatic group, its barber-shop quartet, every home has music in one form or another. — Kate Smith
I'll tell you what I would do in a shot if I could. I would sing in the barbershop quartet in The Music Man. — Ned Beatty

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