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The Detroit String Quartet played Brahms last night. Brahms lost. -- Bennett Cerf
How could a New Yorker possibly take something called the Hollywood String Quartet seriously? -- Leonard Slatkin
People whose sensibility is destroyed by music in trains, airports, lifts, cannot concentrate on a Beethoven Quartet. -- Witold Lutos?awski
People whose sensibility is destroyed by music in trains, airports, lifts, cannot concentrate on a Beethoven Quartet. -- Witold Lutos?awski
I know of musicians who have played together for decades who hate each other. The Modern Jazz Quartet for one. -- Gary Burton
The Vores Third Quartet is a terrific piece that brings disparate components into harmony. . . it's celebratory, imaginative, touching, and fun. -- Richard Dyer
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
My first strong musical memory is of the Villa-Lobos Sixth Quartet which my parents were rehearsing. I remember that it reminded me of big teddy bears dancing around. -- Leonard Slatkin
And over the last ten years, after my work with the Brodsky Quartet, I had the opportunity to write arrangements for chamber group, chamber orchestra, jazz orchestra, symphony orchestra even. -- Elvis Costello
The Third Quartet I made the instruments in pairs - Two different pairs - Violin and viola, and violin and cello. They played very different things from each other all through the whole piece. -- Elliott Carter
The only reason is that I hadn't seen The Modern Jazz Quartet perform live and a live performance is often where the real experience of jazz takes place. I'm not familiar with the Boswell Sisters. -- Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
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 later years they'd say, 'Oh', which amounts to the same thing. -- Paul Desmond
For me, playing music while I write is important. Several of the romantic scenes in 'Paris' were written with Debussy's 'String Quartet,' his 'L'Apres-midi d'une Faune,' or Canteloube's 'Songs of the Auvergne' playing in the background. -- Edward Rutherfurd
I prefer a quartet, it makes everyone work harder. -- Adrian Belew
Some tracks are with quartet and some tracks are with synthesizer. -- Charlie Haden
The most perfect expression of human behavior is a string quartet. -- Jeffrey Tate
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
Industry, economy, honesty, and kindness form a quartet of virtues that will never be improved upon. -- James Oliver
My great hero is Billie Holiday, and I've always wanted to do an album of standards with a piano-led quartet. -- Tim Curry
I'll tell you what I would do in a shot if I could. I would sing in the barbershop quartet in The Music Man. -- Ned Beatty
I'm the fifth generation of Seventh Day Adventists and the youngest of four brothers. When I was still very small, we formed a gospel quartet. -- Brian McKnight
My family was very encouraging, and both of my grandparents were both beautiful singers. My grandmother was a coloratura soprano, and my grandfather was an Irish tenor in a barbershop quartet. -- Clare Bowen
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 quartet, jazz band and electronic stuff. -- Jonny Greenwood
I got a chance to listen to and watch Thelonious Monk and his quartet play two shows a night, for six weeks. It was a great education. There was my university, man. -- Chick Corea
I've been saying for almost 20 years that I need to do a jazz project and it ought to be either big band or I should do some jazz songs with a trio or quartet. -- Al Jarreau
My grandmother would sing in the choir, while my dad - while he was in college - sang and recorded with a quartet. So yeah, it was definitely my dad's Southern side that impacted on me musically. -- Keri Hilson
Growing up in the Bay Area, I played early on with these quartet groups who set guidelines for me. I remember the guys would all have the same clothes and shoes, like these uniforms. I was in awe. -- Raphael Saadiq
Shantaram' is the second in the series of a quartet of novels that I have planned about my life but is the first to be written. The third book is a sequel to 'Shantaram,' the first a prequel. -- Gregory David Roberts
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 deny that I have learned this directly from Mozart. And I am proud of it! -- Arnold Schoenberg
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 on to something, there will be issues of trust, deep trust, the way the members of a string quartet have to trust one another. -- Yo-Yo Ma
I have learned a lot from jazz. I compare good acting to jazz music. The more you study and prepare as an actor, the more equipped you are to live in the moment. Just like the gifted musicians in my dad's quartet, it takes a courageous actor to be free. -- Nat Wolff
My first album didn't come out until I was 27, which in pop years is late, you know. But when it came time to arrange it, I became a kid in a toy shop. I had a harp and a saxophone quartet and a symphony orchestra. I went berserk for a time. -- Bjork
My mom was a folk singer and Celtic harpist. My dad was in a barbershop quartet and my great grandma was an opera singer. As I grew up, I discovered pop music and Top 40 radio, but it was in the '90s, so music was very different then - it was really lyrical. -- Skylar Grey
Something/Anything?' was kind of a different record, since I'm playing everything myself. A lot of the songs on there have a particular kind of instrumentation that is much like a guitar quartet, and in some ways, it's an exceptional song on that record because so much of the writing on 'Something/Anything?' is piano-oriented. -- Todd Rundgren
I would give my best quartet for a good razor, -- Joseph Haydn
A world without tomatoes is like a string quartet without violins. -- Laurie Colwin
[David] Bowie's last album "Blackstar" featured him backed by a jazz quartet. -- David Bowie
Reading to kids is to ordinary reading what jazz is to a string quartet. -- Sean Wilentz
Just as with the quartet, each part of a painting is telling a different story. -- Guido Molinari
Industry, economy, honesty and kindness form a quartet of virtue that will never be improved upon. -- Jamie Oliver
You hear it in your brain. Whatever makes sense. Some songs work well as quartet songs, sometimes they don't. -- Branford Marsalis
Every small town has its dramatic group, its barber-shop quartet, every home has music in one form or another. -- Kate Smith
My dad used to sing in a quartet. He loved everything: adult contemporary, anything smooth. He'd listen to the quartets. -- Keri Hilson
There is no bad day that canâ??t be overcome by listening to a barbershop quartet. This is just truth, plain and simple. -- Aldous Huxley
When I was seven years old, I was leading a quartet and trio, and that really laid the groundwork for me as a musician. -- Anne Akiko Meyers
The question who ought to be boss is like who ought to be the tenor in the quartet? Obviously, the man who can sing tunor. -- Henry Ford
My dad graduated seminary there, and so did (sounds like) Mark Kimball's grandfather. They sang in a quartet together, my dad and Mark Kimball's grandfather. -- Al Jarreau
Asking who ought to be the boss is like asking who ought to be the tenor in the quartet? Obviously, the man who can sing tenor -- Henry Ford
You can play Bach on the piano, a symphony orchestra or a quartet of saxophones, but let's stop this silly, childish business of knit your own musicology -- Paul McCreesh
As a quartet, they struck an unmusical note, primarily the fault of Ybarra-Jaega, who seemed as out of place in their company as a violin in a jazz band. -- Truman Capote
Solo dancing does not exist: the dancer dances with the floor: add another dancer and you have a quartet: each dance with the other and each with the floor. -- Steve Paxton
A noble space, unlike any other of our time, for it is both strong and delicate. It seems to call at once for a Boeing 747 and for a string quartet. -- Paul Goldberger
I am touring in Europe. I am putting together a trio and a quartet. I am playing solo concerts with my symphonic sounds. I am very much engaged back to playing and recording and everything. -- Miroslav Vitous

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