Quartets Quotes
46 quotes by 45 authors
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Part of me is probably more conservative than people realise. I like my old string quartets, I don't like music that's trippy for trippy's sake.
— Bjork
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The Detroit String Quartet played Brahms last night. Brahms lost.
— Bennett Cerf
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Beethoven's last quartets were written by a deaf man and should only be listened to by a deaf man.
— Thomas Beecham
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A world without tomatoes is like a string quartet without violins.
— Laurie Colwin
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Industry, economy, honesty and kindness form a quartet of virtue that will never be improved upon.
— Jamie Oliver
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Why should a novelist not also be a historian? To force unnatural divisions within the English language is to work against its capacious and accommodating…
— Peter Ackroyd
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I love working with the quartet. I have more freedom and flexibility.
— Boz Scaggs
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The most perfect expression of human behavior is a string quartet.
— Jeffrey Tate
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It seems to me the structure of the Quartets is too imposed
— Paul Muldoon
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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
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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
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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
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Reading to kids is to ordinary reading what jazz is to a string quartet.
— Sean Wilentz
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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I love to write quartets. One could say that this is a mania.
— Heitor Villa-Lobos
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There is no bad day that can’t be overcome by listening to a barbershop quartet. This is just truth, plain and simple.
— Aldous Huxley
Who Wrote These Quartets Quotes
45 authors contributed a total of 46 Quartets Quotes, led by these top contributors: