Inspirational Quote by Heitor Villa-Lobos

The Quartets have been a major part of my work.

— Elliott Carter

I prefer a quartet, it makes everyone work harder.

— Adrian Belew

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

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

I feel like songwriting, for me, is kind of therapy.

— Tom Walker

The creative process of composing music has always fascinated me.

— Ludovico Einaudi

It is like therapy to write and have people connect with it. That's the kind of music I connect with most.

— Aubrie Sellers

I realized very early that I was never going to make by living by writing string quartets. But I wanted to write music and…

— Richard Rodney Bennett

I always wrote poetry and stuff like that, so putting songs together wasn't that spectacular.

— Amy Winehouse

I've always appreciated people like Graham Parker or Loudon Wainwright III, who spend their entire lives writing songs and working their asses off just…

— Judd Apatow

Part of what I enjoy about writing classical music is communicating through the score and collaborating with such amazing musicians.

— Bryce Dessner