Quartet Quotations

My mom was a folk singer and Celtic harpist. My dad was in a barbershop quartet and my great grandma was an opera singer. As I grew up, I discovered pop music and Top 40 radio, but it was in the '90s, so music was very different then - it was really lyrical.

'Shantaram' is the second in the series of a quartet of novels that I have planned about my life but is the first to be written. The third book is a sequel to 'Shantaram,' the first a prequel.

My first album didn't come out until I was 27, which in pop years is late, you know. But when it came time to arrange it, I became a kid in a toy shop. I had a harp and a saxophone quartet and a symphony orchestra. I went berserk for a time.

My grandfather was in a barbershop quartet and my grandmother was in a gospel quartet with her sisters.

What this document gives us is rare insight into the imponderable process of decision-making by which this most complex of quartet movements is made over into a work for piano four-hands.

When I was a little boy, 40-plus years ago, I remember listening to the Palmetto State Quartet on my radio. Of course, none of them singing now are the same men I heard then.

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.

She's taking throat singing to a new realm. It's a great chance to see a world class group - they're the leading non-classical string quartet in the world.

She should stay right where she is. Katie's brilliant on the show. She's part of this amazing quartet that's the best in the business, team-wise. She's reaching millions of people, and she goes wherever she wants to.

One time in Spain I was playing and a trumpeter got up to accompany my quartet and people covered their ears. They better rectify that.

Bartok is not an easy repertoire. But Bartok with the Tokyo String Quartet would be the best way that you could hear it.

It is not a good message, because it shows the Quartet does not follow the same line.

Our government will be prepared to hold dialogue with the international quartet about the ways to end the conflict and install calm in the region.

Our government is prepared for dialogue with the quartet to seek a way to end the state of conflict and establish calm in the region.

I think 'Classical Crossover' is the perfect category for what we do. We're a string quartet with people who've mostly all gone to conservatories and studied classical music, but we play all these different kinds of music.

The quartet will convene on September 20 at the ministerial level, on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly.

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 must do more that what they are doing now,

The Quartet itself must continue, but the role of a disenfranchised leader of that Quartet does not seem to me to be a particularly attractive thing to spend your life doing. And so I am considering (leaving) -- but not yet decided.

The decision on the make-up of the fast bowling quartet was not an easy one, given that we are without McGrath. We wanted a blend of pace, youth, experience and line and length and believe we have all of these covered with our selection. Tait is coming back from a shoulder injury and he's bowling at full pace so we're happy that the injury isn't hampering his bowling.

We call for open and unconditional dialogue with the Quartet Committee and commitment to neutrality and justice.

There is a certain irony in this because so much of the effort of the quartet had been spent on reducing the powers of the presidency and building up the powers of the prime minister and cabinet.

There is no reason as far as I know today to believe that Quartet unity has been undermined. On the contrary, the intensity of contacts among Quartet members attests to the close ongoing coordination.

Brad Hodge can count himself unlucky not to be included. It is fair to say that the (selectors) were looking for Brad to put together some really big scores in (domestic first-class) cricket to consolidate his position in the test squad but unfortunately that hasn't happened. The decision on the make-up of the fast bowling quartet was not an easy one, given that we are without Glenn McGrath for this series.

The Russians, I think, clearly delivered a message consistent with the Quartet aims and the Quartet statement.

It would surprise me if one could win by getting all the kids out of school or starving the Palestinians. And I don't think anyone in the Quartet believes that to be the policy.

The Musicians was recorded as a quartet by Dinah Shore, Phil Harris, Tony Martin and Betty Hutton. It was not a hit; it came and went.

They gave you a string instrument - I got a violin. Gave it to me. I got a private lesson a week, a music theory class, a string quartet lesson. Then we all got together for the orchestra. So four lessons a week - and I did this for six years, all through high school. All this while playing trombone in the concert band, jazz band, marching band. And singing in the a cappella chorus and drama club. And on the side, I was in two rock bands, hack garage bands.

I'm looking -- from the Americans, from the Europeans, from the quartet -- for real practical support, not by words. I want to change the situation on the ground for the Palestinian people,

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

In spite of all the refinements of society that conspired to make art the dizzying perfection of the string quartet or the sprawling grandeur of Fragonards canvases beauty was savage. It was as dangerous and lawless as the earth had been eons before man had one single coherent thought in his head or wrote codes of conduct on tablets of clay. Beauty was a Savage Garden.

I can announce today that I am inviting leading Palestinians to come to Britain in January to a conference along with members of the quartet and other countries from the region closely involved in supporting the reform efforts. It will discuss progress on reform and look at how the international community can help.

The first Company concert was a single concert with a quartet who all knew each other, although they didn't play together regularly.