Quartet Quotes - page 2

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)
My grandmother would sing in the choir, while my dad - while he was in college - sang and recorded with a quartet. So yeah, it was definitely my dad's Southern side that impacted on me musically. View quote
Keri Hilson
How could a New Yorker possibly take something called the Hollywood String Quartet seriously? View quote
Leonard Slatkin
Industry, economy, honesty, and kindness form a quartet of virtues that will never be improved upon. View quote
James Oliver
My grandfather was in a barbershop quartet and my grandmother was in a gospel quartet with her sisters. View quote
Kevin Richardson
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. View quote
Nat Wolff
My mom was a folk singer and Celtic harpist. My dad was in a barbershop quartet and my great grandma was an opera singer. As I grew up, I discovered pop music and Top 40 radio, but it was in the '90s, so music was very different then - it was really lyrical. View quote
Skylar Grey
A good quartet is like a good conversation among friends interacting to each other's ideas. View quote
Stan Getz
When I heard Monk in person in 1955, he was playing with a quartet in a small club. The place was full of musicians, but there was no public at all. View quote
Steve Lacy
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. View quote
Chick Corea
By the time of his Fourth String Quartet, inversional symmetry had become as fundamental a premise of Bartók's harmonic language as it is of the twelve-tone music of Schoenberg, Berg, and Webern. Neither he nor they ever realized that this connection establishes a profound affinity between them in spite of the stylistic features that so obviously distinguish his music from theirs...Nowhere does he [Bartók] recognize the communality of his harmonic language with that of the twelve-tone composers that is implied in their shared premise of the harmonic equivalence of inversionally symmetrical pitch-class relations. (George Perle)
My first album didn't come out until I was 27, which in pop years is late, you know. But when it came time to arrange it, I became a kid in a toy shop. I had a harp and a saxophone quartet and a symphony orchestra. I went berserk for a time. View quote
Björk
The Detroit String Quartet played Brahms last night. Brahms lost. View quote
Bennett Cerf
Judith looked at the demons and shook her head. "I'm glad we didn't build four processors. I'm not sure I could take a barbershop quartet!" View quote
Rick Cook
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. View quote
Henry Ford