#quartet

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

Laurel: I don't need a ring or a license, or a spetacular white dress. It's not marriage so much, or at all really, that matters. It's the promise. It's the knowing someone wants me to be part of his life. Someone loves me, that I'm the one for him. That's not just enough, it's everything. ↗

— Nora Roberts

#laurel-mcbane #love #savor-the-moment #wedding #life

I prefer a quartet, it makes everyone work harder. ↗

— Adrian Belew

#harder #i #makes #prefer #quartet

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

#i #like #me #more #music

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

#band #been #big #big band #either

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

#arrangements #chamber #even #group #had

The Quartets have been a major part of my work. ↗

— Elliott Carter

#major #part #quartets #work

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

#awe #bay #bay area #clothes #early

My grandfather was in a barbershop quartet and my grandmother was in a gospel quartet with her sisters. ↗

— Kevin Richardson

#grandfather #grandmother #her #quartet #sisters

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

— Bennett Cerf

#detroit #last #last night #lost #night