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I'm glad [Ornette Coleman] is such an individualist. I like the firmness of thought and purpose that goes into what he's doing,…
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The qualities in music which I considered most important - and still do - were beauty, simplicity, originality, discrimination, and sincerity.
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Writing is like jazz. It can be learned, but it can't be taught.
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I tried practicing for a few weeks and ended up playing too fast.
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Our basic audience begins with creaking elderly types of twenty-three and above.
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Sometimes I get the feeling that there are orgies going on all over new York City, and somebody says, `Let's call Desmond,'…
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Complexity can be a trap. You can have a ball developing a phrase, inverting it, playing it in different keys and times…
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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,…
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It was never supposed to be a hit. It was supposed to be a Joe Morello drum solo,
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I discovered early in life that if you take gym first period, you can go into the wrestling room and sit in…
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We're working as if it were going out of style-which of course it is.
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I was unfashionable before anyone knew who I was.
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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…
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The Detroit String Quartet played Brahms last night. Brahms lost.
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Beethoven's last quartets were written by a deaf man and should only be listened to by a deaf man.
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A world without tomatoes is like a string quartet without violins.
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Industry, economy, honesty and kindness form a quartet of virtue that will never be improved upon.
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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…
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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.
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It seems to me the structure of the Quartets is too imposed
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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,…
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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…
— Unknown Author
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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.
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