Quartets Quotes

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.

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?

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.

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

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

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.

The past and future / Are conquered, and reconciled.

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

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

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

The Quartets have been a major part of my work.