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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 really mean that I'm finished reading. -- Clive James
The Quartets have been a major part of my work. -- Elliott Carter
It seems to me the structure of the Quartets is too imposed -- Paul Muldoon
The Detroit String Quartet played Brahms last night. Brahms lost. -- Bennett Cerf
The most perfect expression of human behavior is a string quartet. -- Jeffrey Tate
A world without tomatoes is like a string quartet without violins. -- Laurie Colwin
I love to write quartets. One could say that this is a mania. -- Heitor Villa-Lobos
Reading to kids is to ordinary reading what jazz is to a string quartet. -- Sean Wilentz
A good quartet is like a good conversation among friends interacting to each other's ideas. -- Stan Getz
I tried to resist his overtures, but he plied me with symphonies, quartets, chamber music, and cantatas. -- S. J. Perelman
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 realized very early that I was never going to make by living by writing string quartets. But I wanted to write music and I didn't want to have to do anything else. -- Richard Rodney Bennett
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
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
I grew up listening to the quartets and I loved that so much that I wanted to see if I could make music and make it happen. It was just a series of events ... me going to concerts and saying "I think I can do that". -- Bill Gaither
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
Whether a listener absorbs this music or rebels against it is at least partly a matter of how the performers put it across. It would be hard to imagine an ensemble playing it with greater virtuosity than the JACK Quartet, which seemed not merely earnest but also completely comfortable with, and passionate about, the strange sound worlds at hand. -- Allan Kozinn
Beethoven's string quartets express pain itself; it is not MY pain. -- Karen Armstrong
Shostakovich's final pieces, his quartets, are scratching the surface of another world. -- Simon McBurney
As an improviser I'm now pretty comfortable with trios, so I'm thinking of working up to quartets. -- Fred Frith
There are no more barbershop quartets wearing boaters, even though I still like them. Life goes on. -- Tina Weymouth
Beethoven's last quartets were written by a deaf man and should only be listened to by a deaf man. -- Thomas Beecham
My dad used to sing in a quartet. He loved everything: adult contemporary, anything smooth. He'd listen to the quartets. -- Keri Hilson
There was one thing Beethoven didn't do. When one of his string quartets was played, you can believe the second violin wasn't improvising. -- Wynton Marsalis
Part of me is probably more conservative than people realise. I like my old string quartets, I don't like music that's trippy for trippy's sake. -- Bjork
While I'm working, I stick with music that won't distract me - the dub stylings of Scientist and King Tubby, maybe some Beethoven string quartets. -- Adam Mansbach
I cannot work and listen to Wagner at the same time, nor Mahler, nor Beethoven's late quartets. I enjoy listening to Chopin's piano music when I work. -- I. M. Pei

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