#string quartet

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

— Bennett Cerf

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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

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

— Leonard Slatkin

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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

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

— Jeffrey Tate

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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

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