#quartet

The most perfect expression of human behavior is a string quartet. ↗

— Jeffrey Tate

#expression #human #human behavior #most #perfect

Every small town has its dramatic group, its barber-shop quartet, every home has music in one form or another. ↗

— Kate Smith

#dramatic #every #form #group #home

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

#electronic #having #hence #i #images

Some tracks are with quartet and some tracks are with synthesizer. ↗

— Charlie Haden

#some #synthesizer #tracks

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

— Bennett Cerf

#detroit #last #last night #lost #night

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

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

It seems to me the structure of the Quartets is too imposed. ↗

— Paul Muldoon

#me #quartets #seems #structure #too

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