I was really hooked on movies at a very young age. The Manchurian Candidate, along with Seven Days in May, Fail-Safe and Dr. Strangelove were this quartet of anarchistic black-and-white American movies, each of which did things that you just didn`t do in ...
Jonathan Demme
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.
Steve Lacy
The Third Quartet I made the instruments in pairs - Two different pairs - Violin and viola, and violin and cello. They played very different things from each other all through the whole piece.
Elliott Carter
The Quartet - the United Nations, the European Union, Russia and the United States - must move past their formal meetings. The Security Council must go beyond presidential and press statements after its monthly meetings on the Middle East and the Arabs mu...
Andrzej Fiema
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
And over the last ten years, after my work with the Brodsky Quartet, I had the opportunity to write arrangements for chamber group, chamber orchestra, jazz orchestra, symphony orchestra even.
Elvis Costello
[This week Marcel listened to the just-rediscovered tapes of a 1957 session of the Thelonious Monk quartet with John Coltrane, at Carnegie Hall.] Hugely exciting. Two geniuses at their peak. ... Absorbing and imaginative - they never met in real life.
Mary Stuart
Asking `who ought to be the boss` is like asking `who ought to be the tenor in the quartet?` Obviously, the man who can sing tenor.
Henry Ford
