Quotes About String Quartets

#1. 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

#2. The playwright Edward Albee has characterized [the suddenness of the appearance of fruits and flowers in evolutionary history] as 'that heartbreaking second when it all got together: the sugars and the acids and the ultraviolets, and the next thing you knew there were tangerines and string quartets.

Adam Leith Gollner

#3. 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.

Richard Rodney Bennett

#4. The great thing about string quartets is the players are kind of like family. They work really well as a unit, so you can write things that let them use those talents of association and intuition-all the things they've developed together as a group.

Terry Riley

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

Karen Armstrong

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

Haruki Murakami

#7. 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

#8. The pieces that have survived, the ones that we all love, were not all popular in their time. Just look at Beethoven's late string quartets. The music that the musical community selects, however, is usually the very best.

David Finckel

#9. 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

#10. 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

#11. It is not clear that intelligence has any long-term survival value.

Stephen Hawking

#12. Through their capacity to manipulate symbols and to engage in reflective thought, people can generate novel ideas and innovative actions that transcend their past experiences

Albert Bandura

#13. It may be that what we call modern is nothing, but what is not worthy of remaining to become old.

Dante Alighieri

#14. All they ever did was clutch and fly and tickle; that was the way of night-gaunts.

H.P. Lovecraft

#15. Here I am and there is my body dancing on glass In accident time where there are no accidents You have no choice the choice comes after

Sarah Kane

#16. How are you, G.I. Joe? It seems to me that most of you are poorly informed about the going of the war, to say nothing about a correct explanation of your presence over here. Nothing is more confused than to be ordered into a war to die.

Hanoi Hannah

#17. Make a conscious decision, no matter what it is, and know that that choice will have consequences.

Eddie De Jong

#18. The truth was she did love him. She loved him for the gentle care he gave her roses. For his loving way with animals. For his honesty. For his tender patience with Maggie and, most important, for the joy he brought into her life.

Debbie Macomber