Quartets Quotes

Quartets Quote of the day

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

As an improviser I'm now pretty comfortable with trios, so I'm thinking of working up to quartets.

In order to arrive at what you are not, you must go through the way in which you are not.

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

I would give my best quartet for a good razor.

Beethoven's last quartets were written by a deaf man and should only be listened to by a deaf man.

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.

In order to possess what you do not possess, you must go by the way of dispossession.

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

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.

Time present and time past / are both perhaps present in time future.

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

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

There is, it seems to us, At best, only a limited value In the knowledge derived from experience.

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

And all shall be well and/ All manner of thing shall be well/ By the purification of the motive/ In the ground of our beseeching

A condition of complete simplicity (Costing not less than everything)

Only through time time is conquered

I love working with the quartet. I have more freedom and flexibility.

And the end and the beginning were always there Before the beginning and after the end.

The past and future / Are conquered, and reconciled.

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

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.

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.

It seems to me the structure of the Quartets is too imposed.

The Quartets have been a major part of my work.

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.