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String Quartets Quotes

In spite of all the refinements of civilization that conspired to make art--the dizzying perfection of the string quartet or the sprawling grandeur of Fragonard's canvases--beauty was savage. It was as dangerous and lawless as the earth had been eons before man had one single coherent thought in his head or wrote codes of conduct on tablets of clay. Beauty was a Savage Garden. Anne Rice
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
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. Wynton Marsalis
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
Bennett Cerf quote: "The Detroit String Quartet played Brahms last night. Brahms lost."
The Detroit String Quartet played Brahms last night. Brahms lost. Bennett Cerf
Leonard Slatkin quote: "How could a New Yorker possibly take something called the..."
How could a New Yorker possibly take something called the Hollywood String Quartet seriously? Leonard Slatkin
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
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
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
Jeffrey Tate quote: "The most perfect expression of human behavior is a string..."
The most perfect expression of human behavior is a string quartet. Jeffrey Tate

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