Comfortable Quote by Fred Frith

I prefer a quartet, it makes everyone work harder.

— Adrian Belew

The Quartets have been a major part of my work.

— Elliott Carter

I love working with the quartet. I have more freedom and flexibility.

— Boz Scaggs

A good quartet is like a good conversation among friends interacting to each other's ideas.

— Stan Getz

People like the idea of the trio and so I did mostly trio.

— Jimmy Smith

I'm a big fan of power trios where there's only three instruments.

— Jeff Ament

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

I started out by myself, but it eventually turned into a trio by the mid-'60s - a conga drum and another guitarist. And that's…

— Richie Havens

Being in Los Angeles, I've had access to some of the best improvisers around and I really study them and what they do. It…

— Paul F. Tompkins

Some tracks are with quartet and some tracks are with synthesizer.

— Charlie Haden

It's quite a trick to use three instruments to tell the story of two people, but Vores carried it off; three, for once, is…

— Richard Dyer

I was never in an improv group. But when I went to school, we would do it all day long with friends, not knowing…

— Christopher Guest