Nat Wolff

I have learned a lot from jazz. I compare good acting to jazz music. The more you study and prepare as an actor, the more equipped you are to live in the moment. Just like the gifted musicians in my dad's quartet, it takes a courageous actor to be free.

American Actor

Yo-Yo Ma

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.

American Musician

B. B. King

In our local Baptist church, I sang in the choir and formed a gospel quartet. When our minister caught me messing with his guitar, he taught me three positions - one, four and five. After that, I taught myself to play.

Arnold Schoenberg

I owe very, very much to Mozart; and if one studies, for instance, the way in which I write for string quartet, then one cannot deny that I have learned this directly from Mozart. And I am proud of it!

Austrian Composer

Joshua Bell

I approach everything as chamber music. Even with Beethoven symphonies, I lead from the violin and basically encourage the orchestra to think of it as a giant string quartet.

James Oliver

Industry, economy, honesty, and kindness form a quartet of virtues that will never be improved upon.

British Politician

Simon McBurney

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

English Actor

Boz Scaggs

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

Jeffrey Tate

The most perfect expression of human behavior is a string quartet.

English Musician

Adrian Belew

I prefer a quartet, it makes everyone work harder.

While 'quartet' often refers to music groups, it can also describe any four people or things together.

Not Always Music

'Quartet' specifically means four, so it never refers to fewer or more individuals or items.

Fixed Number

A quartet can exist in different domains, like literature with four related books, or art with four paintings.

Variety of Contexts

In music, a 'quartet' piece is written for exactly four parts, each performer has a unique role.

Music Composition

Quartets aren’t limited to strings and can feature various combinations of musical instruments.

Different Instruments

Quartets perform in many styles, not just classical. They can play jazz, pop, or other genres too.

Music Styles

In vocal quartets, singers often have different voice types such as soprano, alto, tenor, and bass.

Voice Types

Some quartets, like barbershop, have a strong cultural identity and a distinctive style of performance.

Cultural Icon

 Why would anyone hire you over your competition? If you can't answer that question, neither can your potential clients, which means you can't charge more for the thing that makes your work special. Price becomes a differentiator, and bidding becomes a race to the bottom. What sets you apart could be what you do, why you do it or how you do a string quartet that arranges and plays hip-hop medleys

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 we take a bunch of things, we put them together to make a bigger thing, like a dozen eggs. We take 12 eggs, put them together to make a group, and we call that group a dozen. A dozen eggs is a composed unit. Other examples of composed units include a deck of cards, a pair of shoes, a jazz quartet

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 a cultural ambassador and a collaborator who's deeply integrated in the communities that he or she serves I compose music for symphony orchestras and string quartets but I grew up listening to all kinds of great pop and folk music too and I'm constantly bringing that same directness of

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 How do we figure on the role of apps and design in a modern sensibility with a composer who is very intrigued by data? So, I came up with an iPad app and what we are going to be doing now is essentially as a virtual string quartet with two turntables, violin and cello.

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 forward there was always music in the o'reilly household my humble outside base upright washtub didn't matter he wanted to play bass my uncle Denny belongs to the Society for the preservation and encouragement a barbershop quartet singing in America

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 it was absolutely phenomenal what comes next is a career that alters history music seems to pour out of mozart symphonies operas concertos string quartets piano sonatas and more unlike beethoven and other brilliant

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 depression I just love bleeding for the sake of loving beauty but some I also believe and I don't know whether this resonates with anyone but I don't know if you've listened for instance the late quartets

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 and you think that we're in a noisy sports bar, and I think we're in a highbrow salon with a string quartet talking about Baudrillard. I can't possibly imagine what might go wrong in that scenario.

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 information could you actually take a conversation with a scientist and turn it into a string quartet could you take topography of shattered glaciers and turn that into composition

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 two three to two chairs gone and my quartet of diners are still off the deck