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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… — Bjork
- The Detroit String Quartet played Brahms last night. Brahms lost. — Bennett Cerf
- Beethoven's last quartets were written by a deaf man and should only be listened to by a deaf man. — Thomas Beecham
- 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
- Why should a novelist not also be a historian? To force unnatural divisions within the English language is to work against its… — Peter Ackroyd
- 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
- It seems to me the structure of the Quartets is too imposed — Paul Muldoon
- I owe very, very much to Mozart; and if one studies, for instance, the way in which I write for string quartet,… — 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… — Unknown Author
- I would like to hear Elliot Carter's Fourth String Quartet, if only to discover what a cranky prostate does to one's polyphony. — Unknown Author