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“I tried to resist his overtures, but he plied me with symphonies, quartets, chamber music, and cantatas.”

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“How could a New Yorker possibly take something called the Hollywood String Quartet seriously?”

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“Do not let me hear Of the wisdom of old men, but rather of their folly, Their fear of fear and frenzy, their fear of possession, Of belonging to another, or to others, or to God. The only wisdom we can hope to acquire Is the wisdom of humility: humility is endless.”

Men Humility Let Me Possession Endless Folly Acquire Belonging Old Man Frenzy Quartets

Author:T. S. Eliot

“I would give my best quartet for a good razor.”

Giving Razors Quartets

Author:Joseph Haydn

“I am touring in Europe. I am putting together a trio and a quartet. I am playing solo concerts with my symphonic sounds. I am very much engaged back to playing and recording and everything.”

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Author:Miroslav Vitous

“When I was drawing this, I thought I’d put together Sailor Saturn and Sailor Chibi-Moon in a pair. Then I followed it with the Sailor Quartet. One of these days I’m going to put this team together into the manga. What a weird thing that would be. Anyway, here’s the six.”

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Author:Naoko Takeuchi

“At the still point of the turning world. Neither flesh nor fleshless; Neither from nor towards; at the still point, there the dance is.”

World Stills Dance Flesh Quartets

Author:T. S. Eliot

“Just as with the quartet, each part of a painting is telling a different story.”

Different Stories Painting Quartets

Author:Guido Molinari

“Many consider that Shostakovich is the greatest 20th-century composer. In his 15 symphonies, 15 quartets, and in other works he demonstrated mastery of the largest and most challenging forms with music of great emotional power and technical invention...All his works are marked by emotional extremes - tragic intensity, grotesque and bizarre wit, humour, parody, and savage sarcasm.”

“There are no more barbershop quartets wearing boaters, even though I still like them. Life goes on.”

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Author:Tina Weymouth

“I have learned a lot from jazz. I compare good acting to jazz music. The more you study and prepare as an actor, the more equipped you are to live in the moment. Just like the gifted musicians in my dad's quartet, it takes a courageous actor to be free.”

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Author:Nat Wolff

“[Art] would have helped us survive in the Pleistocene - in the period, say, 1.6 million years ago until fairly recently. The kind of imaginative abilities that artists have and that we all have in the appreciation of art - to appreciate Jane Austen, the late quartets of Beethoven.”

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Author:Denis Dutton

“Music just runs in my family. My dad and my uncles are a gospel quartet, Latimore Brothers. They've been doing their thing ever since I was a kid, so I just kind of grew up around that.”

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Author:Jacob Latimore

“Shantaram is the second in the series of a quartet of novels that I have planned about my life but is the first to be written. The third book is a sequel to Shantaram, the first a prequel.”

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Author:Gregory David Roberts

“The great thing about string quartets is the players are kind of like family. They work really well as a unit, so you can write things that let them use those talents of association and intuition-all the things they’ve developed together as a group.”

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Author:Terry Riley

“Once a month I play with a chamber music quartet. I play almost no solo music anymore because I so enjoy the interaction. The members of my quartet have become some of my best friends and so I really enjoy it now in ways that I didn't before.”

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Author:Condoleezza Rice

“I listen to music when I write. I need the musical background. Classical music. I'm behind the times. I'm still with Baroque music, Gregorian chant, the requiems, and with the quartets of Beethoven and Brahms. That is what I need for the climate, for the surroundings, for the landscape: the music.”

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Author:Elie Wiesel

“When I was seven years old, I was leading a quartet and trio, and that really laid the groundwork for me as a musician.”

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Author:Anne Akiko Meyers

“I got a chance to listen to and watch Thelonious Monk and his quartet play two shows a night, for six weeks. It was a great education. There was my university, man.”

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Author:Chick Corea

“I don't know that I make a big distinction between the big pieces and the little pieces, because I don't experience them in that way. I mean, by the same token, you're out touring with a band and then you're writing string quartets, and in a funny way, isn't it all the same, in a way? It's all just music.”

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Author:Philip Glass

“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.”

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Author:Allan Kozinn

“The hint half guessed, the gift half understood, is incarnation. Here the impossible union of spheres of existence is actual. Here the past and future are conquered and reconciled.”

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Author:T. S. Eliot

“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.”

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Author:Al Jarreau

“The Vores Third Quartet is a terrific piece that brings disparate components into harmony. . . it's celebratory, imaginative, touching, and fun.”

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Author:Richard Dyer

“I have always loved jazz music and as a teen growing up in New York City and then later on as an adult have great memories of the jazz clubs that were all located on 52nd Street. I still catch as many jazz shows as I can when I am in New York. And when I perform, I have my jazz quartet by my side. Jazz musicians keep things spontaneous and very "live," which is the way I like to perform.”

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Author:Tony Bennett

“The pieces that have survived, the ones that we all love, were not all popular in their time. Just look at Beethoven's late string quartets. The music that the musical community selects, however, is usually the very best.”

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Author:David Finckel

“I cannot work and listen to Wagner at the same time, nor Mahler, nor Beethoven's late quartets. I enjoy listening to Chopin's piano music when I work.”

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Book:Conversations with I. M. Pei: Light is the Key

Source: Conversations with I. M. Pei: Light is the Key

“The hint half guessed, the gift half understood, is Incarnation.”

Half Understood Hints Incarnation Quartets

Author:T. S. Eliot

“A noble space, unlike any other of our time, for it is both strong and delicate. It seems to call at once for a Boeing 747 and for a string quartet.”

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Author:Paul Goldberger

“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.”

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Author:Leonard Slatkin

“You hear it in your brain. Whatever makes sense. Some songs work well as quartet songs, sometimes they don't.”

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Author:Branford Marsalis

“I realized very early that I was never going to make by living by writing string quartets. But I wanted to write music and I didn't want to have to do anything else.”

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Author:Richard Rodney Bennett

“I grew up listening to the quartets and I loved that so much that I wanted to see if I could make music and make it happen. It was just a series of events ... me going to concerts and saying "I think I can do that".”

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Author:Bill Gaither

“My wife and I just started listening to the late Beethoven Quartets together, an activity I recommend for all married couples, but that doesn't really mean that I'm finished reading.”

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Author:Clive James

“[David] Bowie's last album "Blackstar" featured him backed by a jazz quartet.”

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Author:David Bowie

“On one hand you have a string quartet, which is not a symphony. On the other hand is you have me sampling them and making it sound like there is many more people playing, so the whole notion of, kind of, sampling applied to classical music is very intriguing to me because composers throughout history have borrowed motifs and quotes from one another.”

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Author:DJ Spooky

“Beethoven's string quartets express pain itself; it is not MY pain.”

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Author:Karen Armstrong

“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.”

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Author:Stewart D. Friedman

“I think that both Russia and other international actors, including those who are more actively engaged in the resolution of the Ukrainian crisis (that is the Federal Republic of Germany and France, the so-called Normandy Quartet, certainly, with close involvement of the United States, and we have intensified our dialogue on this issue), we should all be committed to the full and unconditional implementation of the agreements that were achieved in Minsk. The Minsk Agreements have to be implemented.”

“The only reason is that I hadn't seen The Modern Jazz Quartet perform live and a live performance is often where the real experience of jazz takes place. I'm not familiar with the Boswell Sisters.”

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Author:Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

“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.”

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Author:Yo-Yo Ma

“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.”

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Author:Wynton Marsalis

“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.”

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Author:Bjork

“Except for the point, the still point, There would be no dance, and there is only the dance”

Life Inspirational Stills Would Be Dancing Ballet Quartets

Book:The Poems of T. S. Eliot Volume I: Collected and Uncollected Poems

Source: The Poems of T. S. Eliot Volume I: Collected and Uncollected Poems

“We had the experience but missed the meaning. And approach to the meaning restores the experience in a different form.”

Different Form Approach Experience Quartets

Author:T. S. Eliot

“I said to my soul, be still and wait without hope, for hope would be hope for the wrong thing; wait without love, for love would be love of the wrong thing; there is yet faith, but the faith and the love are all in the waiting. Wait without thought, for you are not ready for thought: So the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness the dancing.”

Love Said Stills Soul Light Would Be Hope Waiting Darkness Meditation Ready Dancing My Soul Stillness Wrong Things Without Love Not Ready Without Hope Calming Quartets Meditation Mind

Author:T. S. Eliot

“Love is most nearly itself When here and now cease to matter.”

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Author:T. S. Eliot

“Footfalls echo in the memory, down the passage we did not take, towards the door we never opened, into the rose garden.”

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Author:T. S. Eliot

“Time present and time past Are both perhaps present in time future, And time future contained in time past. If all time is eternally present All time is unredeemable.”

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Author:T. S. Eliot

“All shall be well, and all shall be well and all manner of thing shall be well.”

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Author:Julian of Norwich

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