Quartets Quotes

The Quartets have been a major part of my work.

There was one thing Beethoven didn't do. When one of his string quartets was played, you can believe the second violin wasn't improvising.

We used to play the underground clubs like the UFO, and Middle Earth, and they were great because they would have on things like a poet, string quartets, and then a rock band! It was kinda cool!

Part of me is probably more conservative than people realise. I like my old string quartets, I don't like music that's trippy for trippy's sake.

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

As an improviser I'm now pretty comfortable with trios, so I'm thinking of working up to quartets.