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Quartets Quotes by Elliott Carter
- The Third Quartet I made the instruments in pairs - Two different pairs - Violin and viola, and violin and cello. They played very different…
- The Quartets have been a major part of my work.
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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
- Why should a novelist not also be a historian? To force unnatural divisions within the English language is to work against its… — Peter Ackroyd
- It seems to me the structure of the Quartets is too imposed — Paul Muldoon
- Growing up in the Bay Area, I played early on with these quartet groups who set guidelines for me. I remember the… — Raphael Saadiq
- I love to write quartets. One could say that this is a mania. — Heitor Villa-Lobos
- I tried to resist his overtures, but he plied me with symphonies, quartets, chamber music, and cantatas. — S. J. Perelman
- 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
- The Detroit String Quartet played Brahms last night. Brahms lost. — Bennett Cerf