Trios Quotes

• Divine the Powers that on this trio wait.
  Supreme their conquest, over Time and Fate.
  Love, Work, and Faith - these three alone are great.

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox

  Life, Fate, Waiting

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox (1917). “The Collected Poems”

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

  Fred Frith

  Thinking, Quartets, Comfortable

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• Well I went to New Orleans to cover the jazz festival for Trio, it's this new arts channel, it's really great.

  Amy Sedaris

  Art, New Orleans, Festivals

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• I've got four or five records in my head at a time that I try to work on and I would like to do a guitar trio record next - since The Police I've mostly made records with keyboards.

  Andy Summers

  Guitar, Police, Trying

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• In The Police, in a trio situation - which I've come back to now - it's just so wide open that it does actually provide this arena where you can play with a certain freedom.

  Andy Summers

  Play, Police, Doe

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• I always hated jazz guitar. I loved jazz saxophone but I hated jazz guitar. If I would buy an organ trio record I would make sure I'd buy one that did not have a guitar player on it. The sound was awful!

  Tom Verlaine

  Player, Guitar, Sound

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• The trio is the biggest sound you can have with the smallest unit.

  Charlie Hunter

  Music, Sound, Jazz

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• If I can get that DAM trio back together again - "get the band back together" - and put on a concert of David Bowie's electronic music, that's the way I want to remember David, moving forward into the future of music.

  Carlos Alomar

  Moving, Together Again, Dams

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• It was so soon after I'd had my son and I really wasn't planning on going back to work for a while. I will walk over hot coals to work with Bill Condon on anything, the experience that you have with him is just too good... I've certainly never worked with him before so the trio of Bill [Codon], Ian [McKellen], and Sherlock Holmes, and England: it was too much to say "no" to.

  Laura Linney

  Son, Hot, Coal

  "MR. HOLMES: Laura Linney Talks Sherlock, and Compares Working on TMNT 2 with CONGO". Interview with Brian Formo, collider.com. July 14, 2015.

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• When I joined the trio, it was as if I was capable of driving a sports car at 60, but Ray Brown and Oscar Peterson just kept pressing the pedal down, and I was trying to control the car at 80!

  Barney Kessel

  Music, Sports, Car

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• I seldom play in a trio, but acoustic music is likely to be lighter, quicker, and quieter.

  Bill Bruford

  Play, Acoustic Music, Acoustics

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• A lot of musicians have a tough time hearing what we're doing in a trio format.

  Branford Marsalis

  Tough Times, Musician, Hearing

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• I carry my iPod everywhere. My favorite group is the John Butler Trio, an Australian jam band. The lead singer and guitarist writes amazing lyrics.

  Hope Solo

  Writing, Ipods, Groups

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• My dream as a child was to play with a bass player like Ray Brown, who played with the Oscar Peterson Trio. The feeling I had listening to his work was almost carnal, so to actually play for him was earth-shattering for me.

  Diana Krall

  Dream, Children, Player

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• When I first organized the King Cole Trio back in 1937, we were strictly what you would call an instrumental group. To break the monotony, I would sing a few songs here and there between the playing. I sang things I had known over the years. I wasn't trying to give it any special treatment, just singing. I noticed thereafter people started requesting more singing, and it was just one of those things.

  Nat King Cole

  Song, Kings, Years

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• There is a diabolical trio existing in the natural man, implacable, inextinguishable, co-operative and consentaneous, pride, envy, and hate; pride that makes us fancy we deserve all the goods that others possess; envy that some should be admired while we are overlooked; and hate, because all that is bestowed on others, diminishes the sum we think due to ourselves.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Hate, Pride, Men

  Charles Caleb Colton (1828). “Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words Addressed to Those who Think”, p.216

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• Psy Free was a trio consisting of guitar, organ and drums. I was the drummer. We did what the name suggests: psychedelic, free music.

  Klaus Schulze

  Guitar, Names, Psychedelic

  Interview with Jason Gross, www.furious.com. May 1997.

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• The cause of freedom, in music as elsewhere, is now very nearly triumphant; but at a time when its adversaries were many and powerful, we can hardly imagine the sacred bridge of liberty kept by a more stalwart trio than Schubert the Armorer, Chopin the Refiner, and Liszt the Thunderer.

  Hugh Reginald Haweis

  Music, Powerful, Bridges

  Hugh Reginald Haweis (1873). “Music and Morals”, p.298, London : Strahan

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• Indecision, doubt and fear. The members of this unholy trio are closely related; where one is found, the other two are close at hand.

  Napoleon Hill

  Hands, Two, Doubt

  Napoleon Hill (2007). “The Prosperity Bible: The Greatest Writings of All Time on the Secrets to Wealth and Prosperity”, p.201, Penguin

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• It's the most natural progression for me to becoming a singing sensation next. And so many people have offered to be on it. Eddie Van Halen... and Prince, Madonna and Cyndi Lauper will probably be a backup trio.

  Paul Reubens

  People, Singing, Next

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• When I was in high school in the '50s you were supposed to be an Elvis Presley, a James Dean, a Marlon Brando or a Kingston Trio type in a button-down shirt headed for the fraternities at Stanford or Cal.

  Robert Hass

  School, Buttons, Fraternity

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• I was with a folk trio back in '63 and '64, and we traveled all across North Africa, Israel, and Europe.

  Creed Bratton

  Israel, Europe, Folks

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• Let’s just say that being able to contact ghosts makes for some very interesting ménages á trios… and ménages á quartre, and ménages á … whatever five is in French. ~Jaime Vegas

  Kelley Armstrong

  Vegas, Interesting, Able

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• A marriage is not primarily a duet but a holy trio.

  Adrian Rogers

  Duets, Holy

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• When I was seven years old, I was leading a quartet and trio, and that really laid the groundwork for me as a musician.

  Anne Akiko Meyers

  Years, Musician, Seven

  Interview with Elijah Ho, www.thecounterpoints.com. October 16, 2014.

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