Coldplay are just four friends trying to make great music. — Will Champion
You can't play a symphony alone, it takes an orchestra to play it. — Navjot Singh Sidhu
I seldom play in a trio, but acoustic music is likely to be lighter, quicker, and quieter. — Bill Bruford
The guitar is a small orchestra. It is polyphonic. Every string is a different color, a different voice. — Andres Segovia
Beauty and fullness of tone can be achieved by having the whole orchestra play with high clarinets and a carefully selected number of piccolos. — Gustav Mahler
If we were all determined to play the first violin we should never have an ensemble. therefore, respect every musician in his proper place. — Robert Schumann
In crowds we have unison, in groups harmony. We want the single voice but not the single note; that is the secret of the group. — Mary Parker Follett
u201Che G-minor Symphony consists of eight remarkable measures surrounded by a half-hour of banality. — Glenn Gould
The Four Aces asked me if I'd like to sing with them as they didn't really have a lead singer. — Desmond Dekker
Short Quartet Quotes
All shall be well, and all shall be well and all manner of thing shall be well. — Julian of Norwich
The end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started. — T. S. Eliot
For us, there is only the trying. The rest is not our business. — T. S. Eliot
Reading to kids is to ordinary reading what jazz is to a string quartet. — Sean Wilentz
A world without tomatoes is like a string quartet without violins. — Laurie Colwin
music heard so deeply That it is not heard at all, but you are the music While the music lasts. — T. S. Eliot
The most perfect expression of human behavior is a string quartet. — Jeffrey Tate
Time past and time future allow but a little consciousness. To be conscious is not to be in time. — T. S. Eliot
How could a New Yorker possibly take something called the Hollywood String Quartet seriously? — Leonard Slatkin
The end is where we start from. — T. S. Eliot
Quartet Image Quotes
Barbershop Quartet Quotes
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
There is no bad day that can’t be overcome by listening to a barbershop quartet. This is just truth, plain and simple. — Aldous Huxley
There are no more barbershop quartets wearing boaters, even though I still like them. Life goes on. — Tina Weymouth
My family was very encouraging, and both of my grandparents were both beautiful singers. My grandmother was a coloratura soprano, and my grandfather was an Irish tenor in a barbershop quartet. — Clare Bowen
My grandfather was in a barbershop quartet and my grandmother was in a gospel quartet with her sisters. — Kevin Richardson
String Quartets Quotes
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
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
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
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
The great thing about string quartets is the players are kind of like family. They work really well as a unit, so you can write things that let them use those talents of association and intuition-all the things they’ve developed together as a group. — Terry Riley
I would like to hear Elliot Carter's Fourth String Quartet, if only to discover what a cranky prostate does to one's polyphony. — James Sellars
A noble space, unlike any other of our time, for it is both strong and delicate. It seems to call at once for a Boeing 747 and for a string quartet. — Paul Goldberger
In spite of all the refinements of civilization that conspired to make art - the dizzying perfection of the string quartet or the sprawling grandeur of Fragonard — Anne Rice
Beethoven's string quartets express pain itself; it is not MY pain. — Karen Armstrong
I realized very early that I was never going to make by living by writing string quartets. But I wanted to write music and I didn't want to have to do anything else. — Richard Rodney Bennett
Quart Quotes
A man can take a little bourbon without getting drunk, but if you hold his mouth open and pour in a quart, he's going to get sick on it. — Lyndon B. Johnson
If my cup won't hold but a pint and yourn holds a quart, wouldn't ye be mean not to let me have my little half-measure full? — Sojourner Truth
My first job was in sixth grade, sweeping the clay tennis courts at the yacht club near my house, which I was not a member of. Always had to pay my own rent. But I don't really have any concept of how money works. I don't know how much things cost. Like a BMW. Or a quart of milk. It's embarrassing. — Chloe Sevigny
My doctor says, 'You've got one of the hardest ones to treat because it's not bipolar, it's not up and down, you're always just about a quart low in the mood department. — Trent Reznor
Oh I have been to Ludlow fair, and left my necktie God knows where. And carried half way home, or near, pints and quarts of Ludlow beer. — A. E. Housman
If after having been exposed to someone's presence you feel as if you've lost a quart of plasma, avoid that presence. You need it like you need pernicious anemia. — William S. Burroughs
Life, Lady Stutfield, is simply a mauvais quart d'heure made up of exquisite moments. — Oscar Wilde
Drink reacts on its practitioners in conflicting ways. One brave can knock off a quart of Scotch and look and act as sober as Herbert Hoover. Another, after three Martinis, makes two-cushion carroms off the chaise lounge as he attempts to negotiate the bathroom. — Tallulah Bankhead
The cost of living has gone up another dollar a quart. — W. C. Fields
Solo dancing does not exist: the dancer dances with the floor: add another dancer and you have a quartet: each dance with the other and each with the floor. — Steve Paxton
For most of us, there is only the unattended
Moment, the moment in and out of time,
The distraction fit, lost in a shaft of sunlight,
The wild thyme unseen, or the winter lightning
Or the waterfall, or music heard so deeply
That it is not heard at all, but you are the music
While the music lasts — T. S. Eliot
Not less of love, but expanding Of love beyond desire, and so liberation From the Future as well as the past. — T. S. Eliot
People whose sensibility is destroyed by music in trains, airports, lifts, cannot concentrate on a Beethoven Quartet. — Witold Lutosławski
At the still point of the turning world. Neither flesh nor fleshless; Neither from nor towards; at the still point, there the dance is. — T. S. Eliot
I tried to resist his overtures, but he plied me with symphonies, quartets, chamber music, and cantatas. — S. J. Perelman
These stories seem at times to be stories of a long-lost world when the city of New York was still filled with a river light, when you heard the Benny Goodman quartets from a radio in the corner stationery store, and when almost everybody wore a hat. — John Cheever
Footfalls echo in the memory, down the passage we did not take, towards the door we never opened, into the rose garden. — T. S. Eliot
Time present and time past Are both perhaps present in time future, And time future contained in time past. If all time is eternally present All time is unredeemable. — T. S. Eliot
Every small town has its dramatic group, its barber-shop quartet, every home has music in one form or another. — Kate Smith
The only hope, or else despair
Lies in the choice of pyre or pyre -
To be redeemed from fire by fire. — T. S. Eliot
time past and time future what might have been and what has been point to one end, which is always present. — T. S. Eliot
I cannot work and listen to Wagner at the same time, nor Mahler, nor Beethoven's late quartets. I enjoy listening to Chopin's piano music when I work. — I. M. Pei
I grew up listening to the quartets and I loved that so much that I wanted to see if I could make music and make it happen. It was just a series of events ... me going to concerts and saying "I think I can do that". — Bill Gaither
When I was drawing this, I thought I’d put together Sailor Saturn and Sailor Chibi-Moon in a pair. Then I followed it with the Sailor Quartet. One of these days I’m going to put this team together into the manga. What a weird thing that would be. Anyway, here’s the six. — Naoko Takeuchi
And since I’m marrying into the Quartet, I have certain privileges and duties. If you’re sleeping with Laurel—” “I’m not sleeping with Laurel. We’re dating.” “Right, and the two of you are just going to hold hands, admire the moon, and sing camp songs.” “For a while. Minus the singing. — Nora Roberts
Do not let me hear
Of the wisdom of old men, but rather of their folly,
Their fear of fear and frenzy, their fear of possession,
Of belonging to another, or to others, or to God.
The only wisdom we can hope to acquire
Is the wisdom of humility: humility is endless. — T. S. Eliot
Love is the unfamiliar Name
Behind the hands that wove
The intolerable shirt of flame
Which human power cannot remove. — T. S. Eliot
Time present and time past / are both perhaps present in time future. — T. S. Eliot
Once a month I play with a chamber music quartet. I play almost no solo music anymore because I so enjoy the interaction. The members of my quartet have become some of my best friends and so I really enjoy it now in ways that I didn't before. — Condoleezza Rice
The question Who ought to be boss? is like as Who ought to be the tenor in the quartet? Obviously, the man who can sing tenor. — Henry Ford
The hint half guessed, the gift half understood, is Incarnation. — T. S. Eliot
My dad graduated seminary there, and so did (sounds like) Mark Kimball's grandfather. They sang in a quartet together, my dad and Mark Kimball's grandfather. — Al Jarreau
I listen to music when I write. I need the musical background. Classical music. I'm behind the times. I'm still with Baroque music, Gregorian chant, the requiems, and with the quartets of Beethoven and Brahms. That is what I need for the climate, for the surroundings, for the landscape: the music. — Elie Wiesel
There is, it seems to us, At best, only a limited value In the knowledge derived from experience. — T. S. Eliot
To arrive where you are, to get from where you are not / You must go by a way wherein there is no ecstasy. — T. S. Eliot
I do not know much about gods; but I think that the river Is a strong brown god-sullen, untamed and intractable. — T. S. Eliot
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