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Tag Name "Quartet" (31)

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People whose sensibility is destroyed by music in trains, airports, lifts, cannot concentrate on a Beethoven Quartet.
Witold Lutosławski
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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
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Just as with the quartet, each part of a painting is telling a different story.
Guido Molinari
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A Beethoven string-quartet is truly, as some one has said, a scraping of horses' tails on cats' bowels, and may be exhaustively described in such terms but the application of this description in no way precludes the simultaneous applicability of an entirely different description.
William James
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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
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Every small town has its dramatic group, its barber-shop quartet, every home has music in one form or another.
Kate Smith
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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
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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
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After two hours it stopped raining and in the same moment the spell broke, which Peroquet and the Admiral and Captain Jumeau knew by a curious twist of their senses, as if they had tasted a string quartet, or been, for a moment, deafened by the sight of colour blue.
Susanna Clarke
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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
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Industry, economy, honesty and kindness form a quartet of virtue that will never be improved upon.
Jamie Oliver
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[David] Bowie's last album Blackstar featured him backed by a jazz quartet.
David Bowie
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How could a New Yorker possibly take something called the Hollywood String Quartet seriously?
Leonard Slatkin
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When I was seven years old, I was leading a quartet and trio, and that really laid the groundwork for me as a musician.
Anne Akiko Meyers
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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
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A world without tomatoes is like a string quartet without violins.
Laurie Colwin
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Whether a listener absorbs this music or rebels against it is at least partly a matter of how the performers put it across. It would be hard to imagine an ensemble playing it with greater virtuosity than the JACK Quartet, which seemed not merely earnest but also completely comfortable with, and passionate about, the strange sound worlds at hand.
Allan Kozinn
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Instead of the metaphor of scales in balance, I prefer the idea of a jazz quartet: you're trying to make music that feels and sounds good, and sometimes you only hear the trumpet or just the bass and piano. Sometimes all four are playing at the same time, but perhaps at different volume.
Stewart D. Friedman
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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
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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
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You can play Bach on the piano, a symphony orchestra or a quartet of saxophones, but let's stop this silly, childish business of knit your own musicology
Paul McCreesh
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A good quartet is like a good conversation among friends interacting to each other's ideas.
Stan Getz
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My first strong musical memory is of the Villa-Lobos Sixth Quartet which my parents were rehearsing. I remember that it reminded me of big teddy bears dancing around.
Leonard Slatkin
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The most perfect expression of human behavior is a string quartet.
Jeffrey Tate
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