Quartets Quote by Elliott Carter Download Open image “The Quartets have been a major part of my work.” — Elliott Carter ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.6 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Quartets Work
A good quartet is like a good conversation among friends interacting to each other's ideas. — Stan Getz Copy Share Image
The great thing about string quartets is the players are kind of like family. They work really well as a unit, so you can… — Terry Riley Copy Share Image
I grew up listening to the quartets and I loved that so much that I wanted to see if I could make music and… — Bill Gaither Copy Share Image
And over the last ten years, after my work with the Brodsky Quartet, I had the opportunity to write arrangements for chamber group, chamber… — Elvis Costello Copy Share Image
My dad used to sing in a quartet. He loved everything: adult contemporary, anything smooth. He'd listen to the quartets. — Keri Hilson Copy Share Image
A large part of my work has been collaborating with composers; I think we've commissioned about 140 pieces now, a lot of them percussion concertos. — Evelyn Glennie Copy Share Image
My wife and I just started listening to the late Beethoven Quartets together, an activity I recommend for all married couples, but that doesn't… — Clive James Copy Share Image
My entire life has really revolved around music that was written about the time that I was born, 1908, to just before the First… — Elliott Carter Copy Share Image
When people listen to my music, I hope that they will notice that if you take a piece by a composer like Schubert, the… — Elliott Carter Copy Share Image
Then, when the Depression came, all of this changed completely. Since that time, the entire public is of a very different sort and there… — Elliott Carter Copy Share Image
Aaron Copland was a man that had a very specific point of view about what music should be which was that, he felt that… — Elliott Carter Copy Share Image
These wealthy people were very interested in contemporary music. They wanted to help diffuse it and get it to be known to other people. — Elliott Carter Copy Share Image
In any case, Ives encouraged me to go into music even though he himself had such a hard time being a composer. — Elliott Carter Copy Share Image
Well when I was young, when I was very young, when I was a little boy I don't remember the music I heard, but… — Elliott Carter Copy Share Image
The first thing that struck me about contemporary music in general had been thatthere was not much interest in rhythm. — Elliott Carter Copy Share Image
That was one of the big problems when I was at Harvard studying music. We had to write choral pieces in the style of… — Elliott Carter Copy Share Image
Silences between movements are employed only in order to bring the opposing duo to the fore. — Elliott Carter Copy Share Image
Since I'm allergic to various things, the army wouldn't accept me during the war, and I got into the Office of War Information, which… — Elliott Carter Copy Share Image
Talking about a materialistic thing, I get about 13 times more royalties from Europe than I do from America. — Elliott Carter Copy Share Image
Desire itself is movement Not in itself desirable; Love is itself unmoving, Only the cause and end of movement, Timeless, and undesiring Except in… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
Music just runs in my family. My dad and my uncles are a gospel quartet, Latimore Brothers. They've been doing their thing ever since… — Jacob Latimore Copy Share Image
I listen to music when I write. I need the musical background. Classical music. I'm behind the times. I'm still with Baroque music, Gregorian… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
I think that both Russia and other international actors, including those who are more actively engaged in the resolution of the Ukrainian crisis (that… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
There is, it seems to us, At best, only a limited value In the knowledge derived from experience. — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
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, 'Who?' In… — Paul Desmond Copy Share Image
One is that you have to take time, lots of time, to let an idea grow from within. The second is that when you… — Yo-Yo Ma Copy Share Image
Solo dancing does not exist: the dancer dances with the floor: add another dancer and you have a quartet: each dance with the other… — Steve Paxton Copy Share Image
Beethoven's string quartets express pain itself; it is not MY pain. — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
