#quartet

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

— Bennett Cerf

#detroit #last #last night #lost #night

I love working with the quartet. I have more freedom and flexibility. ↗

— Boz Scaggs

#freedom #i #i love #love #more

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

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

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

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

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