#quartet

You hear it in your brain. Whatever makes sense. Some songs work well as quartet songs, sometimes they don't. ↗

— Branford Marsalis

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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

#believe #his #improvising #one thing #played

The Detroit String Quartet played Brahms last night. Brahms lost. ↗

— Bennett Cerf

#detroit #last #last night #lost #night

I love working with the quartet. I have more freedom and flexibility. ↗

— Boz Scaggs

#freedom #i #i love #love #more

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

#cannot #deny #directly #i #i am

How could a New Yorker possibly take something called the Hollywood String Quartet seriously? ↗

— Leonard Slatkin

#could #hollywood #how #new #new yorker

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

— Fred Frith

#i #improviser #now #pretty #quartets

He had realised that most vital of humanities. he had touched lives. And he had raised three boys that no one had wanted into men. ↗

— Nora Roberts

#sea-swept #men

Industry, economy, honesty, and kindness form a quartet of virtues that will never be improved upon. ↗

— James Oliver

#form #honesty #improved #industry #kindness

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

#different #different things #each #i #instruments