Adams had gone to Harvard, Jefferson to William and Mary. Washington had gone to war.
The Quartet: Orchestrating the Second American Revolution, 1783-1789The Constitution was intended less to resolve arguments than to make argument itself the solution.
The Quartet: Orchestrating the Second American Revolution, 1783-1789It took him (Washington) more than a year to gain control over his own aggressive instincts.
The Quartet: Orchestrating the Second American Revolution, 1783-1789Shostakovich's final pieces, his quartets, are scratching the surface of another world.
Simon McBurneyA good quartet is like a good conversation among friends interacting to each other's ideas.
Stan Getz