#quartet

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

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

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'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 #if i could #man #music #quartet

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

— Adrian Belew

#harder #i #makes #prefer #quartet

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

#dave #get #later #oh #planes

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

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

#deep #grow #idea #issues #lots