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Elliott Carter Quotes
Aaron Copland was a man that had a very specific point of view about what music should be which was that, he felt that new music should have the composer should show a personality in his music. - Elliott Carter Quotes
Almost every one of my various zero numbered birthdays has had a big concert in London and often in Paris. - Elliott Carter Quotes
Even I wrote it when I first started to compose after I left Paris. I wrote pieces that were comparatively accessible and easy to understand. - Elliott Carter Quotes
I mean the public likes it more in Europe than they do here because the state supported organizations have felt that playing contemporary music was part of the education of the public. - Elliott Carter Quotes
Ive known those pieces ever since I was about 16 or 17; I also at that time was taken to meet Charles Ives whom I got to know fairly well. He was the one who wrote a recommendation for me to get into college. - Elliott Carter Quotes
In any case, Ives encouraged me to go into music even though he himself had such a hard time being a composer. - Elliott Carter Quotes
It was only later on that I became more interested in older music. - Elliott Carter Quotes
Right at the end of the war I wrote a piano sonata, which was written at a time when Sam Barber used to come down here and we used to have lunch together in a very nice old hotel thats now not there. - Elliott Carter Quotes
Silences between movements are employed only in order to bring the opposing duo to the fore. - Elliott Carter Quotes
Since Im allergic to various things, the army wouldnt accept me during the war, and I got into the Office of War Information, which sent music to Europe. - Elliott Carter Quotes
Talking about a materialistic thing, I get about 13 times more royalties from Europe than I do from America. - Elliott Carter Quotes
That was one of the big problems when I was at Harvard studying music. We had to write choral pieces in the style of Brahms or Mendelssohn, which was distressing because in the end you realized how good Brahms is, and how bad you are. - Elliott Carter Quotes
The Quartets have been a major part of my work. - Elliott Carter Quotes
The Royal Festival Hall, I dont know whether it was 80 or 70, gave a whole festival of my music there with orchestra and everything. String quartets. - Elliott Carter Quotes
The Third Quartet I made the instruments in pairs - Two different pairs - Violin and viola, and violin and cello. They played very different things from each other all through the whole piece. - Elliott Carter Quotes
The idea of counterpoint for instance is something that has invaded my music and very few people to date can write counterpoint. - Elliott Carter Quotes
Then, when the Depression came, all of this changed completely. Since that time, the entire public is of a very different sort and there was not so much support for contemporary music in a direct way. - Elliott Carter Quotes
These wealthy people were very interested in contemporary music. They wanted to help diffuse it and get it to be known to other people. - Elliott Carter Quotes
Well I tried to, but I could never write anything that I liked or was worthwhile. I threw it all out and realized that I had to make a serious study- that my tastes were far more advanced than my abilities. - Elliott Carter Quotes
Well when I was young, when I was very young, when I was a little boy I dont remember the music I heard, but there was an article in the Brooklyn Daily written by my Aunt about how I could choose phonograph records. - Elliott Carter Quotes
When I was in Paris, all of the German refugees began to flow in and it was a very sad time. - Elliott Carter Quotes
Why write for the orchestra? For one thing its a very challenging problem. - Elliott Carter Quotes
Yes, I get a report from BMI about the frequency of performances, and it is very surprising. They played one of my most advanced pieces, and one of my most unusual ones on the radio. - Elliott Carter Quotes
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