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Quartets Quotes & Sayings

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

Return to the LORD your God, for he is gracious and compassionate, slow to anger and abounding in love, — Anonymous

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

When people had the cholera it seemed that they remembered nothing but themselves. — Frances Hodgson Burnett

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

Some people write string quartets, some grow lettuce and tomatoes. There have to be a few who build railroad stations, — Haruki Murakami

You look disappointed to see me, Zach," Macey teased. "Don't you like my jacket? — Ally Carter

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

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

Inadequacy of his own strength, learned from experience, impels and urges a man to enlist the help of others. — Pope Leo XIII

I love to write quartets. One could say that this is a mania. — Heitor Villa-Lobos

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

When I was 18 years old I knew pretty much what I wanted to do in life. When I was 18 I knew I wanted to be a pro bodybuilder. — Branch Warren

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

The past and future / Are conquered, and reconciled. — T. S. Eliot

T. S. Eliot's Four Quartets, William Blake's "Proverbs of Hell," and Walt Whitman's Song of Myself. I — Robin Rinaldi

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

Shostakovich's final pieces, his quartets, are scratching the surface of another world. — Simon McBurney

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

I would give my best quartet for a good razor, — Joseph Haydn

Whenever my mother talks to me, she begins the conversation as if we were already in the middle of an argument. — Amy Tan

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

A bee rose up from a sun-filled paper cup, off to make slum honey from some diet root beer it had found inside. — Nicholson Baker

The Quartets have been a major part of my work. — Elliott Carter

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

While I'm working, I stick with music that won't distract me - the dub stylings of Scientist and King Tubby, maybe some Beethoven string quartets. — Adam Mansbach

My dad used to sing in a quartet. He loved everything: adult contemporary, anything smooth. He'd listen to the quartets. — Keri Hilson