#quartet

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

— Bennett Cerf

#detroit #last #last night #lost #night

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

Industry, economy, honesty, and kindness form a quartet of virtues that will never be improved upon. ↗

— James Oliver

#form #honesty #improved #industry #kindness

It seems to me the structure of the Quartets is too imposed. ↗

— Paul Muldoon

#me #quartets #seems #structure #too

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

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

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

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

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

— Jeffrey Tate

#expression #human #human behavior #most #perfect