Top Quartet Quotes
The Detroit String Quartet played Brahms last night. Brahms lost.
Bennett Cerf
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
I suppose subconsciously I was thinking in terms of having the scale of it matching the scale of the images. Hence the sort of string quartet, jazz band and electronic stuff.
Jonny Greenwood
Every small town has its dramatic group, its barber-shop quartet, every home has music in one form or another.
Kate Smith
I owe very, very much to Mozart; and if one studies, for instance, the way in which I write for string quartet, then one cannot deny that I have learned this directly from Mozart. And I am proud of it!
Arnold Schoenberg
Adrian Belew 
Stan Getz 
Charlie Haden 
James Oliver 
Paul Desmond 
Ned Beatty 
Elvis Costello 
Yo-Yo Ma All Quartet Quotes
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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The Detroit String Quartet played Brahms last night. Brahms lost.
Bennett Cerf
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I suppose subconsciously I was thinking in terms of having the scale of it matching the scale of the images. Hence the sort of string quartet, jazz band and electronic stuff.
Jonny Greenwood
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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 owe very, very much to Mozart; and if one studies, for instance, the way in which I write for string quartet, then one cannot deny that I have learned this directly from Mozart. And I am proud of it!
Arnold Schoenberg
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The most perfect expression of human behavior is a string quartet.
Jeffrey Tate
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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
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I love working with the quartet. I have more freedom and flexibility.
Boz Scaggs
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Industry, economy, honesty, and kindness form a quartet of virtues that will never be improved upon.
James Oliver
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