My grandfather was in a barbershop quartet and my grandmother was in a gospel quartet with her sisters.
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I'll tell you what I would do in a shot if I could. I would sing in the barbershop quartet in The Music Man.
quote by Ned Beatty
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My grandfather was Catholic; my grandmother, Jewish. Crossing over from Bavaria, as immigrants to the United States, the ship started to sink. My grandmother jumped overboard. My grandfather followed, to save this girl he had never met.
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I love working with the quartet. I have more freedom and flexibility.
quote by Boz Scaggs
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I prefer a quartet, it makes everyone work harder.
quote by Adrian Belew
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Asking "Who ought to be the boss" is like asking "Who ought to be the tennor in the quartet". Obviously, the man who can sing tenor.
quote by Henry Ford
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Of The Quartet
They will never go out of it,
Because, they always enjoy to be in! !
However, the future war is near;
And, it is in the hands of the Quartet.
poem by Edward Kofi Louis
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How could a New Yorker possibly take something called the Hollywood String Quartet seriously?
quote by Leonard Slatkin
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The most perfect expression of human behavior is a string quartet.
quote by Jeffrey Tate
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We used to get on planes, and they'd ask who we were, and we'd say, 'The Dave Brubeck Quartet', and they'd say, 'Who?' In later years they'd say, 'Oh', which amounts to the same thing.
quote by Paul Desmond
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Industry, economy, honesty, and kindness form a quartet of virtues that will never be improved upon.
quote by James Oliver
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A Pastoral
Just as the sun was setting
Back of the Western hills
Grandfather stood by the window
Eating the last of his pills.
And Grandmother, by the cupboard,
Knitting, heard him say:
'I ought to have went to the village
To fetch some more pills today.'
Then Grandmother snuffled a teardrop
And said. 'It is jest like I suz
T’ th’ parson—Grandfather’s liver
Ain’t what it used to was:
'It’s gittin’ torpid and dormant,
It don’t function like of old,
And even them pills he swallers
Don’t seem no more t’ catch hold;
'They used to grab it and shake it
And joggle it up and down
And turn dear Grandfather yaller
Except when they turned him brown;
'I remember when we was married
His liver was lively and gay,
A kickin’ an’ rippin’ an’ givin’
Dear Ezry new pains ev’ry day;
'It used to turn clear over backwards
An’ palpitate wuss’n a pump
An’ give him the janders and yallers
An’ bounce around thumpty-thump;
'But now it is torpid and dormant
And painless and quiet and cold;
Ah, me! all’s so peaceful an’ quiet
Since Grandfather’s liver ’s grown old!
Then Grandmother wiped a new teardrop
And sighed: 'It is just like I suz
T’ th’ parson: Grandfather’s liver
Ain’t what it used to was.'
poem by Ellis Parker Butler
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People whose sensibility is destroyed by music in trains, airports, lifts, cannot concentrate on a Beethoven Quartet.
quote by Witold Lutoslawski
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Every small town has its dramatic group, its barber-shop quartet, every home has music in one form or another.
quote by Kate Smith
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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.
quote by Steve Lacy
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Giving Up Smoking
There's not a Shakespeare sonnet
Or a Beethoven quartet
That's easier to like than you
Or harder to forget.
You think that sounds extravagant?
I haven't finished yet —
I like you more than I would like
To have a cigarette.
poem by Wendy Cope
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A good quartet is like a good conversation among friends interacting to each other's ideas.
I've been saying for almost 20 years that I need to do a jazz project and it ought to be either big band or I should do some jazz songs with a trio or quartet.
quote by Al Jarreau
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The Detroit String Quartet played Brahms last night. Brahms lost.
quote by Bennett Cerf
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You hear it in your brain. Whatever makes sense. Some songs work well as quartet songs, sometimes they don't.
quote by Branford Marsalis
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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!
quote by Arnold Schoenberg
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