Famous quotes containing the words string quartet, haydn and/or string:
“The most perfect expression of human behavior is a string quartet.”
—Jeffrey Tate (b. 1943)
“To the extent to which genius can be conjoined with a merely good human being, Haydn possessed genius. He never exceeds the limits that morality sets for the intellect; he only composes music which has no past.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (18441900)
“... looped with the creep of varying light,
Monkey-brown, fish-grey, a string of infected circles
Loitering like bullies, about to coagulate....”
—Philip Larkin (19221986)
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