String Quartet Quotes

14 quotes by 13 authors

The Detroit String Quartet played Brahms last night. Brahms lost. — Bennett Cerf
A world without tomatoes is like a string quartet without violins. — Laurie Colwin
The most perfect expression of human behavior is a string quartet. — Jeffrey Tate
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
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
Reading to kids is to ordinary reading what jazz is to a string quartet. — Sean Wilentz
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
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
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
How could a New Yorker possibly take something called the Hollywood String Quartet seriously? — Leonard Slatkin
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
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
In spite of all the refinements of civilization that conspired to make art--the dizzying perfection of the string quartet or the sprawling grandeur of Fragonard's… — Anne Rice

Who Wrote These String Quartet Quotes

13 authors contributed a total of 14 String Quartet Quotes as follows: