Quartets Quotes

46 quotes by 45 authors

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
I tried to resist his overtures, but he plied me with symphonies, quartets, chamber music, and cantatas. — S. J. Perelman
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
The Third Quartet I made the instruments in pairs - Two different pairs - Violin and viola, and violin and cello. They played very different… — Elliott Carter
The Quartets have been a major part of my work. — Elliott Carter
My family was very encouraging, and both of my grandparents were both beautiful singers. My grandmother was a coloratura soprano, and my grandfather was an… — Clare Bowen
As an improviser I'm now pretty comfortable with trios, so I'm thinking of working up to quartets. — Fred Frith
I've been saying for almost 20 years that I need to do a jazz project and it ought to be either big band or I… — Al Jarreau
I would give my best quartet for a good razor, — Joseph Haydn
I am touring in Europe. I am putting together a trio and a quartet. I am playing solo concerts with my symphonic sounds. I am… — Miroslav Vitous
When I was drawing this, I thought Iâ€™d put together Sailor Saturn and Sailor Chibi-Moon in a pair. Then I followed it with the Sailor… — Naoko Takeuchi
And over the last ten years, after my work with the Brodsky Quartet, I had the opportunity to write arrangements for chamber group, chamber orchestra,… — Elvis Costello
One is that you have to take time, lots of time, to let an idea grow from within. The second is that when you sign… — Yo-Yo Ma
There was one thing Beethoven didn't do. When one of his string quartets was played, you can believe the second violin wasn't improvising. — Wynton Marsalis
After two hours it stopped raining and in the same moment the spell broke, which Peroquet and the Admiral and Captain Jumeau knew by a… — Susanna Clarke
Behind the cotton wool is hidden a pattern; that weâ€”I mean all human beingsâ€”are connected with this; that the whole world is a work of… — Virginia Woolf
These stories seem at times to be stories of a long-lost world when the city of New York was still filled with a river light,… — John Cheever

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