#quartet

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

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

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'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

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

#deep #grow #idea #issues #lots

The Quartets have been a major part of my work. ↗

— Elliott Carter

#major #part #quartets #work

Call me Dudley. We're of equal rank. I'm older, but you're far better looking. I can tell we're going to be grand partners. ↗

— James Ellroy

#dudley-smith #l-a-quartet #noir #equality

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

#believe #his #improvising #one thing #played