Components Quote by Richard Dyer

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

It seems to me the structure of the Quartets is too imposed

— Paul Muldoon

The Quartets have been a major part of my work.

— Elliott Carter

As an improviser I'm now pretty comfortable with trios, so I'm thinking of working up to quartets.

— Fred Frith

And then as we played more and more as a trio, it became more and more of a situation where we realized we really…

— Charlie Hunter

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

— Jeff Ament

“CHAPTER II—A DOUBLE QUARTETTE”

— Victor Hugo

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

— Jimmy Smith

Embody the three harmonies: within; with others; and with nature.

— Robert Gilman

I love to write quartets. One could say that this is a mania.

— Heitor Villa-Lobos

The Third Quartet I made the instruments in pairs - Two different pairs - Violin and viola, and violin and cello. They played very…

— Elliott Carter

There is something magical about three you know - a trio is tight and nicely economical.

— Ian Williams