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  • You are the music while the music lasts.

    Four Quartets "The Dry Salvages" pt. 5 (1941)
  • The hint half guessed, the gift half understood, is Incarnation.

    Hints   Half   Quartets  
    1941 Four Quartets,'The Dry Salvages', pt.5.
  • My family was very encouraging, and both of my grandparents were both beautiful singers. My grandmother was a coloratura soprano, and my grandfather was an Irish tenor in a barbershop quartet.

  • I got a chance to listen to and watch Thelonious Monk and his quartet play two shows a night, for six weeks. It was a great education. There was my university, man.

    Night   Men   Play  
  • I said to my soul, be still, and wait without hope, For hope would be hope for the wrong thing.

    1940 Four Quartets,'East Coker', pt.1.
  • Time past and time future allow but a little consciousness. To be conscious is not to be in time.

    1935 Four Quartets,'Burnt Norton', pt.2.
  • At the still point, there the dance is.

    Beautiful   Dance   Scene  
    'Four Quartets' 'Burnt Norton' (1936) pt. 2
  • The dove descending breaks the air With flame of incandescent terror Of which the tongues declare The one discharge from sin and error. The only hope, or else despair Lies in the choice of pyre or pyre- To be redeemed from fire by fire. Who then devised the torment? Love. Love is the unfamiliar Name Behind the hands that wove The intolerable shirt of flame Which human power cannot remove. We only live, only suspire Consumed by either fire or fire.

    Lying   Love Is   Fire  
    Four Quartets "Little Gidding" pt. 4 (1942)
  • 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.

    Ideas   Issues   Way  
  • When I was drawing this, I thought I’d put together Sailor Saturn and Sailor Chibi-Moon in a pair. Then I followed it with the Sailor Quartet. One of these days I’m going to put this team together into the manga. What a weird thing that would be. Anyway, here’s the six.

    Team   Moon   Drawing  
  • Words move, music moves Only in time; but that which is only living Can only die. Words, after speech, reach Into the silence. Only by the form, the pattern, Can words or music reach The stillness.

    Moving   Silence   Speech  
    T.S. Eliot (2011). “The Complete Poems and Plays of T. S. Eliot”, p.157, Faber & Faber
  • After two hours it stopped raining and in the same moment the spell broke, which Peroquet and the Admiral and Captain Jumeau knew by a curious twist of their senses, as if they had tasted a string quartet, or been, for a moment, deafened by the sight of colour blue.

    Rain   Sight   Blue  
    Susanna Clarke (2009). “Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell”, p.133, Bloomsbury Publishing
  • The past and future / Are conquered, and reconciled.

    Past   Quartets  
    T. S. Eliot (2014). “Complete Poems and Plays, 1909-1950”, p.145, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • I am touring in Europe. I am putting together a trio and a quartet. I am playing solo concerts with my symphonic sounds. I am very much engaged back to playing and recording and everything.

    Europe   Together   Sound  
  • Music just runs in my family. My dad and my uncles are a gospel quartet, Latimore Brothers. They've been doing their thing ever since I was a kid, so I just kind of grew up around that.

    "World Faire". Interview with Tariq Johnson, theruss.net. May 22, 2015.
  • When I was seven years old, I was leading a quartet and trio, and that really laid the groundwork for me as a musician.

    Years   Musician   Trios  
    Interview with Elijah Ho, www.thecounterpoints.com. October 16, 2014.
  • The end is where we start from.

    Four Quartets "Little Gidding" pt. 5 (1942)
  • The hint half guessed, the gift half understood, is incarnation. Here the impossible union of spheres of existence is actual. Here the past and future are conquered and reconciled.

    Past   Hints   Half  
    1941 Four Quartets,'The Dry Salvages', pt.5.
  • 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.

    Song   Years   Needs  
  • A noble space, unlike any other of our time, for it is both strong and delicate. It seems to call at once for a Boeing 747 and for a string quartet.

  • I suppose subconsciously I was thinking in terms of having the scale of it matching the scale of the images. Hence the sort of string quartet, jazz band and electronic stuff.

    Thinking   Band   Stuff  
  • We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.

    Four Quartets "Little Gidding" pt. 5 (1942)
  • Every small town has its dramatic group, its barber-shop quartet, every home has music in one form or another.

    Home   Groups   Towns  
  • Humankind cannot bear very much reality.

    Four Quartets "Burnt Norton" pt. 1 (1936)
  • 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!

    Writing   Proud   Way  
    Arnold Schoenberg, Christian Meyer, Therese Muxeneder, Arnold Schönberg Center (2005). “Arnold Schönberg: catalogue raisonné”
  • 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.

    Men   Barbershop   Shots  
  • Cold Mountain Buddhas Han Shan Wait without thought, for you are not ready for thought: So the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness be dancing. Whisper of running streams, and winter lightning. The wild thyme unseen and the wild strawberry, The laughter in the garden, echoed ecstasy Not lost, but requiring, pointing to the agony Of death and birth.

  • time past and time future what might have been and what has been point to one end, which is always present.

    Time   Past   Might  
    T.S. Eliot (2015). “The Poems of T. S. Eliot Volume I: Collected and Uncollected Poems”, p.904, Faber & Faber
  • My dad graduated seminary there, and so did (sounds like) Mark Kimball's grandfather. They sang in a quartet together, my dad and Mark Kimball's grandfather.

    "Jazz vocalist Al Jarreau". "Tavis Smiley", www.pbs.org. November 5, 2013.
  • The communication of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living.

    Four Quartets "Little Gidding" pt. 1 (1942)
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