Quartets Quotes - Page 5

• I would give my best quartet for a good razor.

  Joseph Haydn

  Giving, Razors

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• 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.

  Miroslav Vitous

  Europe, Together, Sound

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• 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.

  Naoko Takeuchi

  Team, Moon, Drawing

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• 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.

  Dmitri Shostakovich

  Sarcasm, Emotional, Symphony

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• 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.

  Jacob Latimore

  Running, Brother, Uncles

  "World Faire". Interview with Tariq Johnson, theruss.net. May 22, 2015.

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• 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.

  Gregory David Roberts

  Book, Firsts, Shantaram

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• 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.

  Chick Corea

  Night, Men, Play

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• 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.

  Philip Glass

  Writing, Mean, Band

  Interview with Bryce Dessner, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 3, 2014.

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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

  Hands, Sound, Rebel

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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

  Dad, Grandfather, Together

  "Jazz vocalist Al Jarreau". "Tavis Smiley", www.pbs.org. November 5, 2013.

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

  Richard Dyer

  Fun, Touching, Pieces

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• 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.

  Tony Bennett

  New York, Growing Up, Memories

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• 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.

  David Finckel

  Community, Musical, Looks

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• 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.

  I. M. Pei

  Piano Music, Listening, Mahler

  I. M. Pei, Gero von Boehm (2000). “Conversations with I. M. Pei: Light is the Key”, Prestel Pub

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• 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.

  Paul Goldberger

  Strong, Space, Boeing 747

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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

  Strong, Memories, Dancing

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

  Branford Marsalis

  Song, Brain, Sometimes

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• 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.

  Richard Rodney Bennett

  Writing, Want, Strings

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• 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".

  Bill Gaither

  Thinking, Listening, Events

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• The question who ought to be boss is like who ought to be the tenor in the quartet? Obviously, the man who can sing tunor.

  Henry Ford

  Funny, Leadership, Men

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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

  Silly, Play, Symphony

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• I would like to hear Elliot Carter's Fourth String Quartet, if only to discover what a cranky prostate does to one's polyphony.

  James Sellars

  Musical, Doe, Strings

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• Growing up in the Bay Area, I played early on with these quartet groups who set guidelines for me. I remember the guys would all have the same clothes and shoes, like these uniforms. I was in awe.

  Raphael Saadiq

  Growing Up, Shoes, Clothes

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• I love to write quartets. One could say that this is a mania.

  Heitor Villa-Lobos

  Writing, Mania

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• I know of musicians who have played together for decades who hate each other. The Modern Jazz Quartet for one.

  Gary Burton

  Hate, Together, Musician

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