Quartets famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

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

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The Quartets have been a major part of my work.
-- Elliott Carter

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

#Thinking #Trios #Quartets
I love to write quartets. One could say that this is a mania.
-- Heitor Villa-Lobos

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I would give my best quartet for a good razor,
-- Joseph Haydn

#Giving #Razors #Quartets
How could a New Yorker possibly take something called the Hollywood String Quartet seriously?
-- Leonard Slatkin

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It seems to me the structure of the Quartets is too imposed
-- Paul Muldoon

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There are no more barbershop quartets wearing boaters, even though I still like them. Life goes on.
-- Tina Weymouth

#Goes On #Barbershop #Quartets

In addition to temples, surely another holy place on earth ought to be our homes. The feelings of holiness in my home prepared me for feelings of holiness in the temple.
The violence in the Old Testament and New Testament is descriptive. The violence in the Koran is for all time and it is prescriptive. And Mohammed said "I have been made victorious through terror.".
Don't ask me to put up a shelf, but I love engineering.
Okay. Then...I can talk. Ask me something." "Okay." He laughs shakily in my ear. "Why is your heart racing Tris?" I cringe and say, "Well, I...I barely know you. I barely know you and I'm crammed up against you in a box, Four, what do you think?"... "Maybe you were cut out for Candor," he says, "because you're a terrible liar.
Justice cannot be for one side alone, but must be for both.
Sometimes God teaches us how to solve our problems. Sometimes God teaches us how to face our problems
If you get up early, work late, and pay your taxes, you will get ahead -- if you strike oil.
What makes us afraid is our great freedom in the face of the emptiness that has still to be filled.
Most people are much better at saying things in letters than in conversation, and some people can write artistic, inventive letters, but when they try a poem or story or novel they become pretentious.
When gratitude o'erflows the swelling heart, and breathes in free and uncorrupted praise for benefits received, propitious heaven takes such acknowledgment as fragrant incense, and doubles all its blessings.