#quartet

I--" She swallowed, perhaps summoning her courage, then continued, "I would not lie to you and say that I did not want this." "Me," he cut in peevishly. "You wanted me." She closed her eyes. “Yes,” she finally said, “I wanted you.” Part of him wanted to interrupt again, to remind her that she still wanted him, that it wasn’t and would never be in the past. “But I can’t have you,” she said quietly, “and because of that, you can’t have me.” And then, to his complete astonishment, he asked, “What if I married you? ↗

— Julia Quinn

#anne-wynter #daniel-smythe-smith #julia-quinn #smyth-smith-quartet #courage

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

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

I've been saying for almost 20 years that I need to do a jazz project and it ought to be either big band or I should do some jazz songs with a trio or quartet. ↗

— Al Jarreau

#band #been #big #big band #either

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

When I heard Monk in person in 1955, he was playing with a quartet in a small club. The place was full of musicians, but there was no public at all. ↗

— Steve Lacy

#full #heard #i #monk #musicians

We used to play the underground clubs like the UFO, and Middle Earth, and they were great because they would have on things like a poet, string quartets, and then a rock band! It was kinda cool! ↗

— Alvin Lee

#because #clubs #cool #earth #great

People whose sensibility is destroyed by music in trains, airports, lifts, cannot concentrate on a Beethoven Quartet. ↗

— Witold Lutoslawski

#cannot #concentrate #destroyed #lifts #music